Carter made Tri-State stop in 1980 election campaign The nation paid its respects on Thursday to Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States. Carter died at his home in Plains, Georgia on ...

Six days of funeral observances for former President Jimmy Carter began Saturday in Georgia, where he died ... modern presidents — Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton — also grew ...

We saw all five living presidents happily seated together, while we observers speculated as to what Republican ...

Nanda Pethiyagoda While the USA is respectfully giving its 39th President a state funeral in Washington DC and a final internment in Plains, Georgia, President-elect Donald Trump is threateningly ...

When he showed up at the Chicago Tribune one day in early 1976, James Earl Carter, Jr., was announced by one of our young newsroom copy clerks as “that governor from Georgia who thinks he can run for ...

In 1980, he lost in a landslide to Republican Ronald Reagan, gaining just 49 electoral votes to Reagan's 489. He had been born on Oct. 1, 1924, in Plains, Ga., to a nurse mother and a businessman ...

Carter served one term before losing re-election in 1980 to Ronald Reagan, his bid hobbled ... in the tiny Sumter County town of Plains in southwest Georgia, where he grew up on a peanut farm.

Georgia.Related video above: Washington heightens security ahead of Trump's inaugurationBoth President Joe Biden, a Democrat, and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, directed that U.S. flags ...