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DES MOINES, Iowa — Former President Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States, died on Dec. 29, 2024. The 39th president of the United States had connections that ran deep in Iowa.
Former President Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States, died on Dec. 29, 2024. The 39th president of the United States had connections that ran deep in Iowa.
Carter, who died Sunday at the age of 100, campaigned vigorously in Iowa during 1975. He entered hospice care nearly two years ago and his wife of 77 years, Rosalyn, died at age 96 in November 2023.
Iowa leaders praised former President Jimmy Carter as a dedicated public servant and global humanitarian who used the Iowa caucuses in 1976 to propel the little-known peanut farmer turned Georgia ...
The death of former President Jimmy Carter is stirring up memories of his time campaigning in Iowa ahead of the 1976 Iowa caucuses, as well as his campaign for reelection in 1980. IPR's Joyce ...
THE NATION REFLECTS ON THE LIFE OF JIMMY CARTER. GOOD EVENING. I’M JULIE CORNELL. THE FORMER PRESIDENT DIED TODAY AT 100 YEARS OLD. AND SOME IN OMAHA SAY HIS IMPACT HERE IS GREATER THAN YOU ...
Jimmy Carter speaks at a campaign event Jan. 8, 1976 — 11 days before the Iowa caucuses that year — at the Jim Albright home in northwest Cedar Rapids.
Iowa had given an unknown entity enough momentum to take on party favorites once before. That could be Carter, too, couldn’t it? During the 1976 election cycle, former President Jimmy Carter ...
President Jimmy Carter was 100. Former President Jimmy Carter poses for a portrait during the Toronto International Film Festival, Sept. 10, 2007, in Toronto.
The Carter family has accepted Congress' invitation for President Jimmy Carter to lie in state in the U.S. Capitol rotunda. President Joseph R. Biden issued a proclamation appointing Jan. 9, ...