It was a life that took him from peanut farming to the presidency. While former President Jimmy Carter ‘s time in the White House only lasted one term, the decades afterward were defined by ...
The Carter family has been devastated by pancreatic cancer to an extreme degree. It took the lives of Mr. Carter’s father, at age 58, and all of his siblings: sisters Ruth, at 54, and Gloria, at 63, ...
While conservatives used the principle of meritocracy in the post-civil rights era to oppose affirmative action and other pro-diversity programs, some are much less committed to this ideology than ...
The life of James Earl Carter Jr., the 39th and longest-lived U.S. president, ended Sunday at the age of 100 where it began: Plains, the town of 600 that fueled his political rise, welcomed him after ...