Jimmy Carter, a steel-willed Southern governor who was elected president in 1976, died at his home in Plains, Georgia, on Dec. 29, according to his son James E. Carter III, known as Chip. He was 100 and the oldest living U.S. president of all time. Follow live updates from the memorial services.
The country honors the former president, who died on Dec. 29 at age 100, with an official state funeral at the National Cathedral on Thursday. A private interment in Plains, Ga., is set to follow.
President Biden will deliver a eulogy, and tributes written by Gerald Ford and Walter Mondale will be read by their sons.
President Joe Biden will deliver a eulogy at Washington National Cathedral. Several former presidents, including President-elect Donald Trump, are expected to attend.
By the end of his term in 1980, President Jimmy Carter had appointed more women and people of color to the federal bench than all previous presidents combined.
Joe Biden, Donald Trump, Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton — reunited at Jimmy Carter's funeral service in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 9. Obama and Trump held a long conversation at the start of the event,
Jimmy Carter's grandson Jason recalls humorous moments with his grandparents that prove that, at heart, they were "regular folks," including an accidental phone call shortly after the former president got a cell phone for the first time.
Former US presidents and vice presidents attended the funeral of the 39th President Jimmy Carter on Thursday in Washington, D.C.
Mourners have been flowing into the Capitol to pay their respects to former President Jimmy Carter. On Thursday, the site of Carter’s funeral will change from the Rotunda to Washington’s National Cathedral.
Former President Jimmy Carter is being honored with the pageantry of a funeral in the nation’s capital before a second service in his Georgia hometown.
A national funeral service for former President Jimmy Carter was held on Thursday at the Washington National Cathedral. President-elect Donald Trump had a notable encounter with his former Vice President,