Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States and Nobel Peace Prize winner, died Sunday at the age of 100. The Carter Center announced the former president’s death Sunday afternoon.

James Earl Carter was born on October 1, 1924, in Plains, Georgia. He graduated at the top of his class at the U.S. Naval Academy in 1946, and married Rosalynn Smith, another Plains native, that same year. Jimmy Carter considered the decision to marry Rosalynn more important than any he made as head of state. She shared his desire to see the world, sacrificing college to support his Navy career.

Carter returned to Georgia to help with his family’s peanut farm after his father was diagnosed with cancer, before launching a political career that took him all the way to the White House. Carter failed to talk with his wife before his first run for office — he later called it “inconceivable” not to have consulted her on such major life decisions.

He won a state Senate seat in 1962. Carter ran for governor in 1966, but lost to Lester Maddox — and then immediately focused on the next campaign. In 1970, Carter ran for governor again and won.

Carter entered the 1976 presidential race as a little-known Georgia governor with a broad smile, outspoken Baptist mores, and technocratic plans reflecting his education as an engineer. His no-frills campaign depended on public financing, and his promise not to deceive the American people resonated after Richard Nixon’s disgrace and U.S. defeat in southeast Asia.

“If I ever lie to you, if I ever make a misleading statement, don’t vote for me. I would not deserve to be your president,” Carter repeated before narrowly beating Republican incumbent Gerald Ford, who had lost popularity pardoning Nixon.

Carter governed amid Cold War pressures, turbulent oil markets and social upheaval over racism, women’s rights and America’s global role. His most acclaimed achievement in office was a Mideast peace deal that he brokered by keeping Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin at the bargaining table for 13 days in 1978. That Camp David experience inspired the post-presidential center where Carter would establish so much of his legacy.

His presidency ended after one term, following a landslide defeat in the 1980 presidential election to Ronald Reagan. He then returned to his hometown of Plains, Georgia, and the same ranch-style house that he and Rosalynn built in 1961, quickly establishing The Carter Center in 1982.
Carter was diagnosed with cancer in 2015.

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