Despite his difficulties in office, Carter had few rivals for accomplishments as a former president. He gained global acclaim ...

Jimmy Carter "lived a life measured not by words, but by his deeds," President Joe Biden said in televised remarks addressing ...

Carter’s body will then be flown on Monday to Washington, where he will lie in state at the Capitol on the Lincoln catafalque ...

A Georgia native and a Democrat, Carter was elected president in 1976, defeating Republican incumbent Gerald Ford in the ...

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Jimmy Carter, who died Sunday at age 100, stood out for his early support for pro-gay legislation and his embrace of LGBTQ ...

Former President Jimmy Carter, who died Sunday at the age of 100, led an extraordinary life that began at a peanut farm in Plains, Georgia, and went on to include four years in the world's most ...

Previous US presidents had not been prepared to risk relations with UK by involvement in Northern Ireland but Carter did not ...

President Carter had a visionary understanding of the climate change crisis ahead, which only grows more profound with each passing year.

With a focus on human rights, US policy toward Latin America under Jimmy Carter briefly tempered a long tradition of ...

Jimmy Carter was the longest-lived American president and survived longer than some presidents elected before and after him.

Chapin, who founded the regional food bank in 1980, was killed in a crash on the Long Island Expressway in 1981. His brother, ...