- Born
- Birth nameJames Earl Carter Jr.
- Nicknames
- Jimmy
- The Peanut Farmer
- Height5′ 9¾″ (1.77 m)
- James Earl Carter Jr. (born October 1, 1924) is an American former politician who served as the 39th president of the United States from 1977 to 1981. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as the 76th governor of Georgia from 1971 to 1975 and as a Georgia state senator from 1963 to 1967. Since leaving office, Carter has remained engaged in political and social projects, receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 for his humanitarian work.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Bonitao
- He grew up in middle-class circumstances with a deep Christian faith. Already in his youth he was in charge of the Sunday school of his Baptist church. After graduating from high school, Carter entered Georgia Southwestern College in 1941. However, in 1943 he transferred to the Naval Academy in Annapolis, where he studied nuclear physics. During his training, most recently as an engineering officer on a nuclear submarine in the Navy, he married Rosalynn Smith in 1947, with whom he had four children. In 1953, his father's death forced him to return home to continue the family business, a peanut farm.
To modernize the farm, he undertook agricultural studies. From 1955 to 1962 he began to be politically active at the local level in Plains, where he was characterized by his liberal viewpoint on the racial problem in the southern states. In 1962, Carter was elected to the Georgia Senate as a Democratic supporter. He was confirmed in this role in 1964. After his unsuccessful candidacy for governor of Georgia in 1966, he prepared the 1970 election campaign through numerous trips and public appearances. From 1971 to 1975, Carter was governor of Georgia. During this time, he developed a liberal integration and social policy that primarily sought to achieve equality for African-Americans and the poor.
At the same time, he began to play an increasingly larger role on the national level of Democratic Party politics. In 1976 he won the presidential election campaign, primarily with the votes of African-American and economically weaker sections of the population. From 1977 he was the 39th President of the United States of America. It was his moral values that brought the politician, who was inexperienced in foreign policy, the highest political office in the USA after the defeat in Vietnam and the Watergate affair. His mixture of weak decision-making at home and aggressive human rights policy abroad plunged the USA into an even deeper economic and social crisis. He also barely managed to achieve the desired improvement in the economic situation.
Carter's actions not only jeopardized the final tension policy with the Soviet Union, but also provoked criticism from allied states. With enormous economic and moral pressure, he destabilized numerous dictatorships allied with the USA, such as Iran, Nicaragua and the Philippines. Carter attracted worldwide attention by stopping US aid to countries suspected of human rights violations. During his term in office, Jimmy Carter continued to conclude the treaties for the handover of the Panama Canal and was significantly involved in the negotiations for the Camp David I Accords. He negotiated the SALT II Treaty with the Soviet Union, and the United States established diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China for the first time.
Carter's foreign policy reached a dramatic climax in November 1979 with the taking of US citizens hostage in Tehran, with which Iranian students tried to force the extradition of the former Shah, who had emigrated to the US. The case also marked a sensitive defeat for the US President. In April 1980, an American military operation in Iran to free the hostages failed. After the failed liberation campaign, Carter suffered the Democrats' biggest election defeat of that century against Ronald Reagan in 1980. The hostages in Iran were finally released on President Carter's last day in office, January 20, 1981.
After his presidency, Carter continued to excel in peacekeeping and humanitarian projects. To this end, he founded and financed the Carter Center for global activities in the so-called "Third World". In 1990, Carter's diplomatic intervention in Nicaragua enabled the resignation of revolutionary leader Daniel Ortega and the assumption of government by his democratically elected successor. A short time later, he mediated between Bill Clinton's US administration and Somalia. In 1994, in negotiations with North Korea, he achieved disarmament of nuclear weapons there. He also intervened in the conflict over Haiti and Bosnia in 1994. Since then, Carter has tirelessly accompanied US domestic politics and world events.
His humanitarian commitment has been recognized through numerous awards. In 1999 he received the UNICEF International Child Survival Award. In 2000, Jimmy Carter was honored with the Eisenhower Medal and in 2002, after multiple nominations, with the Nobel Peace Prize. In February 2004, Jimmy Carter published his first novel, "The Rebels," which deals with the American War of Independence. In 2007 he was honored with "The Ridenhour Courage Prize".- IMDb Mini Biography By: Christian_Wolfgang_Barth - Jimmy Carter is an American politician, philanthropist, and former farmer who served as the 39th president of the United States from 1977 to 1981. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as a Georgia State Senator from 1963 to 1967 and as the 76th governor of Georgia from 1971 to 1975. Since leaving the presidency, Jimmy Carter has remained active in the private sector; in 2002, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his work in co-founding the Carter Center. He has written over 30 books ranging from political memoirs to poetry while continuing to actively comment on ongoing American and global affairs. The earliest-serving of the five living U.S. presidents, Carter is the longest-lived president, the longest-retired president, the first to live forty years after their inauguration, and the first to reach the age of 95.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Tango Papa
- SpouseRosalynn Carter(July 7, 1946 - November 19, 2023) (her death, 4 children)
- ChildrenJohn William CarterJames Carter IIIDonnel Jeffrey Carter
- ParentsJames Earl Carter Sr.
- RelativesBilly Carter(Sibling)Lester G. Reynolds(Cousin)Hugh Carter(Cousin)
- Broad, toothy smile
- Has chosen his hometown of Plains, GA, for his burial in the event of his death, rather than Arlington National Cemetery, which he is eligible for as a WWII veteran.
- First US president born in a hospital.
- Related, on his mother's side of the family, to Elvis Presley.
- Is both fluent and literate in Spanish, writing his own speeches in Central and South American countries.
- Was a close friend of Gerald Ford despite their quite different political ideologies and the fact that he defeated Ford in the 1976 presidential election.
- If one vote per precinct had changed in 1960, John Kennedy would never have been President of this nation. And if a few more people had gone to the polls and voted in 1968, Hubert Humphrey would have been President; Richard Nixon would not. - during his closing statement in the 1980 Presidential debate
- John Wayne was bigger than life. In an age of few heroes, he was the genuine article. But he was more than a hero; he was a symbol of many of the qualities that made America great - the ruggedness, the tough independence, the sense of personal conviction and courage - on and off the screen - that reflected the best of our national character.
- Unless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent.
- "I think as far as the adverse impact on the nation around the world, this administration has been the worst in history." (20 May 2007)
- On Wednesday, August 17th, 1977, one day after Elvis Presley's life-loss, he personally said, "Elvis Presley's death deprived our country of apart of itself. He was unique and irreplaceable."
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