List of presidents of the United States - Wikipedia
The first president, George Washington, won a unanimous vote of the Electoral College. [4] The incumbent president is Donald Trump, who assumed office on January 20, 2025. [5][6] Since the office was established in 1789, 45 men have served in 47 presidencies; the discrepancy arises because of Grover Cleveland and Donald Trump, who were elected ...
Jimmy Carter funeral: All 5 living presidents attend ceremony
Jan 9, 2025 · President Jimmy Carter was honored in a state funeral in Washington on Thursday, alongside a private memorial in Georgia.
James Carter | The White House
The biography for President Carter and past presidents is courtesy of the White House Historical Association. Jimmy Carter served as the 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981. He was awarded the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize for work to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and …
Jimmy Carter: A Declassified Obituary | National Security Archive
Dec 29, 2024 · Washington, D.C., December 29, 2024 – The late President Jimmy Carter, contrary to the views of some critics, was typically focused, knowledgeable, and strong-willed on matters of foreign policy, often responding sharply to attempts by his most senior aides to bend his thinking, according to a review of the voluminous documentary record on Carter’s presidency.
Former President Carter Remembered as Humanitarian, Visionary
Dec 29, 2024 · Even as mourners around the world remembered Jimmy Carter as a global humanitarian and a visionary on issues like climate change and human rights, historians began framing the life and legacy of the 39th president who died on Dec. 29 at age 100.
Why Jimmy Carter's tumultuous presidential term still stirs …
Dec 29, 2024 · Jimmy Carter was a former one-term governor from Georgia, almost unknown nationally, when he broke through in Iowa and New Hampshire early in 1976 and rode that momentum all the way to...
Jimmy Carter at 100: A century of changes | AP News
Oct 1, 2024 · Already the longest-lived of the 45 men to serve as U.S. president, Jimmy Carter is about to reach the century mark. The 39th president, who remains under home hospice care, will turn 100 on Tuesday, Oct. 1, celebrating in the same south Georgia town …
Jimmy Carter: How American presidents have planned their own …
Dec 30, 2024 · One of the most memorable descriptions of George Washington — “first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen” — came from a eulogy that was widely reprinted when the country’s first leader died.
Jimmy Carter transformed more than the presidency - National …
Dec 29, 2024 · In the wake of what he called “the shame of Watergate,” Carter promoted himself as an outsider, a “peanut farmer from Georgia,” who could dispel the “veils of secrecy [that] seemed to thicken around Washington.”
Jimmy Carter to Lie in State in Capitol Starting Tuesday - The …
Jan 7, 2025 · Former President Jimmy Carter’s body was moved on Tuesday from his home state of Georgia to Washington, where it will lie in state in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol until Thursday.