Former President Jimmy Carter celebrates his 96th birthday on Thursday, the last impediment to the eldest of the 44 men holding office in the United States.
Carter planned to celebrate at his home in Plains, Georgia, with his 74-year-old wife, Rosalynn Carter, a spokeswoman for the Carter Center in Atlanta.
The 39th president, acting from 1977 to 1981, has largely deviated from public view amid the coronavirus pandemic and its own physical fitness disorders due to a series of falls in 2019.
He had already survived a terrible diagnosis in 2015.
Former President Jimmy Carter celebrates his 96th birthday on Thursday, October 1, the last impediment to the eldest of the 44 men taking the top spot in the United States. Carter planned to celebrate at his home in Plains, Georgia, with his 74-year-old wife, Rosalynn Carter
Carter will celebrate with his Rosalynn Carter at his Home in Georgia, photographed together
Carter is the 3est of 44 men to hold the highest position in the United States as president
Democrat Jimmy Carter took the oath of office through Supreme Court President Earl Burger as the 39th president of the United States while his wife Rosalynn watches in Washington DC on January 20, 1977.
He was born on October 1, 1924, under the rare full call James Earl Carter, Jr. and grew up during the Great Depression.
Carter is the son of a Georgian peanut grower and peanut grower, discussions about politics and devotion to the Baptist religion would have been the pillars of his upbringing.
He graduated from the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, in 1946 and married Rosalynn Smith a short time later.
The couple have 3 children, John William (Jack), James Earl III (Chip), Donnel Jeffrey (Jeff) and a daughter, Amy Lynn.
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