Former President Jimmy Carter dies at the age of 100

President Jimmy Carter acknowledges the applause of about 1,100 people gathered in the Elk City High School gym for a town meeting in Elk City, Okla., March 24, 1979. (AP Photo, File)

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President Jimmy Carter raises a clenched fist during his address to the Democratic Convention, Aug. 15, 1980, in New York’s Madison Square Garden where he accepted his party’s nomination to face Republican Ronald Reagan in the general election.

Former President Jimmy Carter poses for a portrait during the Toronto International Film Festival, Sept. 10, 2007, in Toronto. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

In this Feb. 20, 1978, file photo, President Jimmy Carter listens to Sen. Joseph R. Biden, D-Del., as they wait to speak at fund raising reception at Padua Academy in Wilmington, Del. President Joe Biden says he plans to deliver the eulogy at the funeral of former President Jimmy Carter, who remains under hospice care at his home in south Georgia. (AP Photo/Barry Thumma, File)

For the first time in history, five US presidents gathered in one place. George HW Bush, Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford and Richard Nixon appear in the courtyard of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley Calif., November 04 1991. (Photo by Tom Mendoza/Daily News Staff Photographer)

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Governor-elect Jimmy Carter walks about the grounds of the governor’s mansion in Atlanta on Sunday, Jan. 11, 1971, after he moved into the mansion, background. In his arms is his 3-year-old daughter Amy. Carter will be sworn in as governor of Georgia next Tuesday.

Jimmy Carter, the Democratic front runner for the presidential nomination, in a pond as he and friends drain a pond and catch fish for a fish fry the next day in Plains, Ga., June 25, 1976. Carter, who rose from Georgia farmland to become the 39th president of the United States on a promise of national healing after the wounds of Watergate and Vietnam, then lost the White House in a cauldron of economic turmoil at home and crisis in Iran, died on Sunday, Dec. 29, 2024, at his home in Plains, Ga. He was 100. (George Tames/The New York Times)

President Jimmy Carter and wife, Rosalyn, take the stage during the first day of the Democratic National Convention on Monday, August 25, 2008 in Denver, Colo. (Joe Amon / JS)

President Jimmy Carter and wife, Rosalyn, take the stage at the Pepsi Center on the first day of the Democratic National Convention on Monday, August 25, 2008 in Denver, Colo. (RJ Sangosti / JS)

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Democratic presidential candidate Jimmy Carter speaks to a rally at the home of Maryland Secretary of State Fred Pineland in Oxon Hill, May 14, 1976. Earlier, he held his first meeting with AFL-CIO president George Meany in nearby Washington.

Former President Jimmy Carter reacts as his wife Rosalynn Carter speaks during a reception to celebrate their 75th wedding anniversary, July 10, 2021, in Plains, Ga. The Carter Center said Saturday, Feb. 18, 2023, that former President Jimmy Carter has entered home hospice care. The charity created by the 98-year-old former president said on Twitter that after a series of short hospital stays, Carter “decided to spend his remaining time at home with his family and receive hospice care instead of additional medical intervention.” (AP Photo/John Bazemore, Pool, File)

Former President Jimmy Carter makes graceful roll cast as he fishes for native rainbow trout on Turniptown Creek which runs by his mountain cabin near Ellijay, Ga., May 23, 1988. (Joe Holloway, Jr., The Associated Press)

President Jimmy Carter is interviewed in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Jan. 24, 1977. (AP Photo, File)

In this Dec. 13, 1978, file photo, President Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn lead their guests in dancing at the annual Congressional Christmas Ball at the White House in Washington. Jimmy and Rosalynn are celebrating their 77th wedding anniversary, Friday, July 7, 2023. Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter have been best friends and life mates for nearly 80 years. Now with the former first lady’s death at age 96, the former president must adjust to life without the woman who he credits as his equal partner in everything he accomplished in politics and as a global humanitarian after their White House years. (AP Photo/Ira Schwarz, File)

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Jordan King Hussein, center, flanked by President Jimmy Carter and Mrs. Rosalynn Carter, stands at attention during the playing of national anthems during welcoming ceremonies at the White House in Washington Monday, April 25, 1977. Hussein is in Washington for a three-day official visit.

Former President Jimmy Carter teaches a Sunday school class at Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, Ga., his hometown, last Sunday. (David Goldman, The Associated Press)

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President Jimmy Carter speaks from the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Oct. 24, 1978. He unveiled a largely voluntary new set of wage and price guidelines saying “we must face a time of national austerity.”

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President Jimmy Carter , right, talks with Pope John Paul II at the White House in Washington in this Oct. 6, 1979 file photo. Carter hosted the first White House by a pope. Pope John Paul II was greeted at Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington by Vice President Walter Mondale. His stay at the White House featured 10,000 guests _ split between separate arrival and departure ceremonies on the North and South Lawns.

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President Jimmy Carter, left, and Republican presidential candidate Ronald Reagan shake hands before a debate on Oct. 28, 1980, in Cleveland.

In this Feb. 8, 2017, file photo former President Jimmy Carter, right, and his wife Rosalynn arrive for a ribbon cutting ceremony for a solar panel project on farmland he owns in their hometown of Plains, Ga Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter have been best friends and life mates for nearly 80 years. Now with the former first lady’s death at age 96, the former president must adjust to life without the woman who he credits as his equal partner in everything he accomplished in politics and as a global humanitarian after their White House years.(AP Photo/David Goldman, File)

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President Jimmy Carter shakes hands with Carol Channing after he and his family attended a performance of the musical “Hello Dolly” starring Miss Channing which is playing at the National Theater in Washington, Oct. 19, 1978. Also in the photo are, from left: first lady Rosalynn Carter, daughter Amy Carter, President Carter, Allie Smith, mother of Rosalynn Carter, and Miss Channing. (AP Photo/Mark Wilson)

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Jimmy Carter watches the television screen while his daughter-in-law, Judy, keeps an eye on her son, Jason in the Carter hotel room on in New York, July 14, 1976.

Democratic presidential front-runner Jimmy Carter and his 8-year-old daughter Amy have a moment alone, though they are in the midst of about 30 visitors to Amy’s drink stand outside the Carter home, June 12, 1976, in Plains, Ga. (AP Photo/Joe Holloway Jr., File)

Former President Jimmy Carter was flying to Cleveland to promote his new book when he became ill.

Former president Jimmy Carter wears an Obama hat while volunteering in Bicentennial Park in Aurora on August 27, 2008.

Jimmy Carter recently said, “This is the most polarized country and the most partisan divide that we have ever seen.”

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President Jimmy Carter is interviewed by four television reporters on Wednesday, Dec. 28, 1977 in the Red Room of the White House at Washington. From left are: Bob McNeil, PBS; Bob Schieffer, CBS; Carter; Barbara Walters, ABC; and Tom Brokaw, NBA. (AP Photo/Charles Tasnadi)

FILE — Former President Jimmy Carter in New York, Oct. 8, 2007. Carter, who at 98 is the longest living president in American history, has decided to forgo any further medical treatment and will enter hospice at his home in Georgia, the Carter Center announced on Saturday., Feb. 18, 2023 (Damon Winter/The New York Times)

In this handout image provided by the Elders, Jimmy Carter walks with his grandsons Jeremy Carter (R), 22, and Hugo Wentzel, 10 during a picnic event on October 31, 2009 in Istanbul, Turkey. Jimmy Carter, Desmond Tutu and their fellow Elders invited their grandchildren to join them this week to remind the world of the catastrophic risk of climate change to future generations. The seven Elders and their thirteen grandchildren from Asia, Africa, Europe and America met in Istanbul with the group ranging in age from 3 to 85. (Photo by Kate Brooks/The Elders via Getty Images)

President Jimmy Carter and his younger brother Billy take a walk through the woods around their mother’s pond house near Plains, Ga., June 1, 1977. The president paid a brief visit to his home town Tuesday. (AP Photo/Barry Thumma)

US President Jimmy Carter (C) congratulates Egyptian President Anwar al-Sadat (L) and Israeli Premier Menachem Begin (R) in Athree-way handshake after signing on the north lawn of the White House the historic US-sponsored peace treaty between Israel and Egypt on March 26, 1979. Egypt will not officially commemorate on March 25, 2009 the thirtieth anniversary of the 1979 signing of the first Arab-Israeli peace treaty which changed forever the strategic balance of the Middle East. Israel’s assault on Gaza in December-January, in which 1,300 Palestinians died, and the election choice of right-wing leader Benjamin Netanyahu to be the next prime minister mean that Cairo is not in the mood for celebrations. (Photo credit should read -/AFP/Getty Images)

Jimmy Carter is surrounded by Reporters at the Airport.
He said President Ford showed “lack of leadership” in Earl Butz controversy.
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Carter greets supporters on his way from noon-hour rally in downtown to speak at Denver Hilton Hotel. Hundreds of persons lined one-block path which Carter took.

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President Carters is encircled as he discusses proposals on assistance
Gov. Lamm, wearing glasses to right of Carter, and other government and environmental leaders pay rapt attention.
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President Jimmy Carter at his desk in the Oval Office, talking to his new Chief of Staff Hamilton Jordan, White House, Washington D C, July 19th 1979. (Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Democratic presidential candidate Jimmy Carter embraces his wife Rosalynn after receiving the final news of his victory in the national general election, November 2, 1976. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

American politician Jimmy Carter looks up while shoveling peanuts on a peanut farm, 1970s. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

President Jimmy Carter waves from the roof of his car along the parade route through Bardstown, Ky., July 31, 1979. Well-wishes and fond remembrances for the former president continued to roll in Sunday, Feb. 19, 2023, a day after he entered hospice care at his home in Georgia. (AP Photo/Bob Daugherty, File)

Former President Jimmy Carter smiles as he is awarded the Order of Manuel Amador Guerrero by Panamanian President Juan Carlos Varela during a ceremony at the Carter Center, Jan. 14, 2016, in Atlanta. Well-wishes and fond remembrances for the former president continued to roll in Sunday, Feb. 19, 2023, a day after he entered hospice care at his home in Georgia. (AP Photo/John Bazemore, File)

Mayor Bill McNichols, Right, Greets Jimmy Carter while Balloons overhead were released as Carter was introduced at street rally.
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Democratic presidential candidate Jimmy Carter leads the way as party deplanes at Stapleton
His three-hour visit to Denver Monday came during a stopover on his way to San Francisco.

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Jimmy Carter waves to a crowd outside the Denver Hilton Hotel. Gov. Dick Lamm, behind car, accompanied Carter to discuss Western problems.

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Gov. Lamm gestures as he explains Western water problems to Carter during round table.

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President Carter stands with Sen. Floyd Haskell as he waves to Onlookers
Haskell was on hand at Stapleton international Airport to welcome the president to Denver Wednesday.
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Carter addresses the audience at the Solar Energy Research Institute.
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President Jimmy Carter visits Colorado.
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Former President, Jimmy Carter waves as he enters the stage area just before the Presidential Inauguration of Barack Obama at the U.S. Capitol Tuesday afternoon. THE DENVER POST/ ANDY CROSS

Former President of the United States Jimmy Carter gives a fist pump after throwing the ceremonial first pitch before the start of the San Francisco Giants and San Diego Padres game on Opening Day at Petco Park on April 8, 2004 in San Diego, California. (Photo by Donald Miralle/Getty Images)

Former President Jimmy Carter watches a baseball game between the Atlanta Braves and the Toronto Blue Jays on Sept. 17 in Atlanta. (John Bazemore, The Associated Press)

Former president Jimmy Carter and wife Rosyln arrive at the inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States of America on the West Front of the Capitol January 20, 2009 in Washington, DC. Obama becomes the first African-American to be elected to the office of President in the history of the United States. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Egyptian Vice President Hosni Mubarak meets with President Jimmy Carter in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. Egypt’s vice president says Mubarak resigned on Friday, Feb. 11, 2011 as president and handed control to the military. (AP Photo/Charles Tasnadi, File)

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter promotes his book “Full Life: Reflections at Ninety” at Barnes & Noble, 5th Avenue on July 7, 2015 in New York City. Carter was 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981 and was awarded the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize. (Photo by D Dipasupil/Getty Images)

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter (R) speaks while campaigning for Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate and State Sen. Jason Carter (2nd L) as his wife Kate Carter (L) and grandmother former first lady Rosalynn Carter look on at Emmanuel Christian Community Church on October 27, 2014 in Columbus, Georgia. Jason Carter is running against the Republican incumbent Georgia Republican Gov. Nathan Deal. (Photo by Jessica McGowan/Getty Images)

US President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama and former US Presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter wave during the Let Freedom Ring Commemoration and Call to Action to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC on August 28, 2013. Thousands will gather on the mall on the anniversary of the march and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech. (Photo SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)

Former US president Jimmy Carter listens to a question during a press conference in the capital Cairo on January 13, 2012. The Carter Center is one of the few monitoring groups to have had a license to witness Egypt’s first post-revolution election, in which the country’s two main Islamist parties have scored a crushing victory. (Photo AMRO MARAGHI/AFP/Getty Images)

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter works on the 1,000th home to be built by Habitat for Humanity on the Gulf Coast May 21, 2007 in Violet, Louisiana. Carter made waves May 19 when he said that the Bush administration “has been the worst in history”, in an interview published in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. (Photo by Chris Graythen/Getty Images)

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalyn attach siding to the front of a Habitat for Humanity home being built June 10, 2003 in LaGrange, Georgia. More than 90 homes are being built in LaGrange; Valdosta, Georgia; and Anniston, Alabama by volunteers as part of Habitat for Humanity International’s Jimmy Carter Work Project 2003. (Photo by Erik S. Lesser/Getty Images)

Former US President Jimmy Carter delivers the last speech at the first session of the 1988 Democratic National Convention 18 July 1988 in Atlanta. Carter on Friday 11 October 2002 won the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize for years of tireless effort as an international mediator. Carter, 78, was honored for “his decades of untiring effort to fin peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development”, the Norwegian Nobel Committee said. (Photo BOB PEARSON/AFP/Getty Images)

Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat (R) and former US President Jimmy Carter (L), who came to Gaza as an international election observer, give a press conference 21 January 1996 in Gaza City. Carter, 78, on Friday 11 October 2002 won the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize for years of tireless effort as an international mediator. Carter, 78, was honored for “his decades of untiring effort to fin peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development”, the Norwegian Nobel Committee said. (Photo RABIH MOGHRABI/AFP/Getty Images)

US President George W. Bush (R) welcomes Former US President Jimmy Carter, winner of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize to the Oval Office 18 November, 2002 the White House in Washington, DC. Carter, this year’s Nobel Peace Prize winner, called 15 November for disarmament by the US, which has taken the lead in urging countries such as North Korea to destroy their weapons of mass destruction and threatened to disarm Iraq by force if it does not do so voluntarily. (Photo TIM SLOAN/AFP/Getty Images)

Democrat Jimmy Carter is sworn in by chief justice Earl Burger as the 39th president of the United States while first lady Rosalynn looks on, Washington DC, January 20, 1977. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Democratic candidate for the US Presidency Jimmy Carter during the Democratic National Convention in New York City. (Photo AFP/AFP/Getty Images)