Jimmy Carter

James Earl Carter Jr. (October 1, 1924 - December 29, 2024) served as a nuclear engineer in the United States Navy and ran his family's peanut farming business before entering politics as a Georgia state senator from 1963 to 1967 and Governor of Georgia from 1971 to 1975, then served as the 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981. His single term produced the Camp David Accords, a peace agreement between Israel and Egypt, the transfer of the Panama Canal to Panamanian control, and the establishment of diplomatic relations with China, but ended amid the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the Iranian hostage crisis, contributing to his loss of reelection to Ronald Reagan in 1980. He lived longer than any other American president, reaching the age of 100, and his decades-long post-presidency, the longest in American history, brought him greater recognition than his single term in office; he founded the Carter Center to advance human rights and conducted extensive international work on election monitoring and disease eradication, and built houses through Habitat for Humanity, work that earned him the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize.