Former US President Jimmy Carter has died at the age of 100. The Washington Post reports it. Carter was the 39th president of the USA, from 1977 to 1981. In 1982 he established the Carter Center, a foundation for human rights and the promotion of democracy, a work for which in 2002 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for peace.
James Earl Carter Jr, known as Jimmy, was born in Plains, Georgia, on October 1, 1924. From 1971 to 1975 he was Governor of Georgia, then won the Democratic nomination for the 1976 presidential elections, where as an outsider he defeated the incumbent Republican president, Gerald Ford. On his second day in office, Carter pardoned all Vietnam War draft dodgers. In foreign policy, Carter promoted the Camp David Accords, the Panama Canal Treaties, and the second Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT II). On the economic front, it has faced persistent stagflation, which is a combination of high inflation, high unemployment and slow growth. The end of his presidential term was marked by the 1979–1981 Iran hostage crisis, the 1979 energy crisis, the Three Mile Island nuclear accident, El Salvador’s civil war, and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. In 1980 he was reconfirmed as a candidate for president in view of the general elections, prevailing in the Democratic primaries over Senator Ted Kennedy, but in the elections he was defeated by the Republican candidate Ronald Reagan. Following the death of George HW Bush on November 30, 2018, Carter was the oldest living former president.
Jimmy Carter with wife Rosalynn