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was born on October 1, 1924, at the Wise Sanitarium (now the Lillian G. The Carter family store (part of Carter's Boyhood Farm) in Plains, Georgia He is also the third-oldest living person to have served as a state leader. At 97 years old, Carter is both the oldest living and longest-lived president, as well as the one with the longest post-presidency, and his 76-year-long marriage makes him the longest-married president. He has written over 30 books, ranging from political memoirs to poetry, while continuing to actively comment on ongoing American and global affairs, including the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. Carter is considered a key figure in the nonprofit organization Habitat for Humanity. He has traveled extensively to conduct peace negotiations, monitor elections, and advance disease prevention and eradication in developing nations. In 2002, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his work in co-founding the Center. In 1982, Carter established the Carter Center, aimed at promoting and expanding human rights. His post-presidential activities have been viewed more favorably than his presidency. Polls of historians and political scientists generally rank Carter as a below-average president. Carter lost the 1980 presidential election in an electoral landslide to Republican nominee Ronald Reagan. In the 1980 Democratic Party presidential primaries, he was challenged by Senator Ted Kennedy, but won re-nomination at the 1980 Democratic National Convention.

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He is the only president to have served a full term in office and not have appointed a justice to the Supreme Court. In response to the invasion, Carter escalated the Cold War when he ended détente, imposed a grain embargo against the Soviets, enunciated the Carter Doctrine, and led a 1980 Summer Olympics boycott in Moscow. The end of his presidency was marked by the 1979–1981 Iran hostage crisis, the 1979 energy crisis, the Three Mile Island nuclear accident, the Nicaraguan Revolution and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. On the economic front he confronted stagflation, a persistent combination of high inflation, high unemployment and slow growth. Carter pursued the Camp David Accords, the Panama Canal Treaties, and the second round of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT II). He created a national energy policy that included conservation, price control, and new technology. During his term, two new cabinet-level departments-the Department of Energy and the Department of Education-were established. On his second day in office, Carter pardoned all Vietnam War draft evaders by issuing Proclamation 4483. In the 1976 presidential election, Carter ran as an outsider and narrowly defeated incumbent Republican president Gerald Ford. Despite being a dark-horse candidate who was not well known outside of Georgia, he won the 1976 Democratic presidential nomination. From 1963 to 1967, Carter served in the Georgia State Senate, and in 1970 was elected as governor of Georgia, defeating former Governor Carl Sanders in the Democratic primary. He became an activist within the Democratic Party. During this period, Carter was encouraged to oppose racial segregation and support the growing civil rights movement. Nevertheless, his ambition to expand and grow the family's peanut farm was fulfilled. He inherited comparatively little, because of his father's forgiveness of debts and the division of the estate amongst himself and his siblings. After the death of his father in 1953, he left his naval career and returned home to Plains, where he assumed control of his family's peanut-growing business. Since leaving office, Carter has remained engaged in political and social projects, receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 for his humanitarian work.īorn and raised in Plains, Georgia, Carter graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1946 with a Bachelor of Science degree and joined the United States Navy, serving on numerous submarines. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as the 76th governor of Georgia from 1971 to 1975 and as a Georgia state senator from 1963 to 1967. (born October 1, 1924) is an American former politician who served as the 39th president of the United States from 1977 to 1981.

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