Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has died. He was 100 years old and had spent more than a year in hospice care.
The Georgia peanut farmer served one turbulent term in the White House before building a reputation as a global humanitarian and champion of democracy. He defeated President Gerald Ford in 1976 promising to restore trust in government but lost to Ronald Reagan four years later amid soaring inflation, gas station lines and the Iran hostage crisis.
He and his wife, Rosalynn Carter, then formed The Carter Center, and he earned a Nobel Peace Prize while making himself the most active and internationally engaged of former presidents.
The Carter Center said the former president died Sunday afternoon in Plains, Georgia.
Georgia State Sen. Jimmy Carter hugs his wife, Rosalynn, at his Atlanta campaign headquarters on September 15, 1966 after making a strong showing in Wednesday’s primary election, September 14, 1966, in the race for the Democratic nomination for governor of Georgia. In late returns, Carter and businessman Lester Maddox were in a tight race for the runoff spot against former Gov. Ellis Arnall for the Democratic nomination. (AP Photo) Jimmy Carter, Democratic gubernatorial candidate, points to his name in a voting machine as he casts his vote in Plains, during Georgia’s first joint primary, Sept. 9, 1970. Plains is Carter’s hometown. (AP Photo) Former state Sen. Jimmy Carter breaks into a broad smile after early returns gave him a lead of almost 2-1 in the Democratic runoff against former Gov. Carl Sanders, Sept. 23, 1970, in Atlanta, Ga. (AP Photo/Charles Kelly) Former Georgia State Sen. Jimmy Carter, center, gets applause and victory signs at his headquarters as his mother Lillian Carter looks on at right, Wednesday, Sept 10, 1970, Atlanta, Ga. The rest of the group is unidentified. (AP Photo/John Storey) Governor-elect Jimmy Carter and his daughter Amy, 3, walk about the grounds by the fountain at the Governor’s Mansion in Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 10, 1971, as they get to know the place where they will live for the next four years. (AP Photo) Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter holds his daughter, Amy, 7, just after he had made his official announcement in Atlanta that he would seek the Democratic nomination for the presidency, Dec. 13, 1974. Earlier, Carter had told the National Press Club in Washington that he planned to enter primaries in New Hampshire, Florida, Wisconsin, Indiana, Alabama, New York and California. (AP Photo) Presidential hopeful Jimmy Carter, left, greets an unidentified factory worker as they arrive at the Allis-Chalmers Plant in suburban West Allis, Wis., April 5, 1976. Carter was seeking votes in Tuesday’s Wisconsin Democratic primary. (AP Photo/Paul Shane) Jimmy Carter, right, shook hands with some people who can vote, and a few who can’t, in a campaign visit to Youngstown, Ohio, his second such trip to drum up support in Ohio’s presidential primary Monday, June 7, 1976. (AP Photo) Jimmy Carter on the final day of the national democratic convention in Madison Square Garden in New York July 15, 1976. (AP Photo) In this Sept. 23, 1976, file photo President Gerald Ford speaks during the first of three televised presidential debates with Democratic candidate Jimmy Carter at Philadelphia’s Walnut Street Theater. During one of those debates Ford didn’t dominate when he declared Poland was not under the domination of the Soviet Union, which at the time it was. Time magazine called it “the blooper heard round the world.” Ford’s rival said the president had “disgraced our country.” (AP Photo/File) Portrait of US President Jimmy Carter taken in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., United States in 1977. (AP Photo) President Jimmy Carter waves to the crowd while walking with his wife Rosalynn along Pennsylvania Avenue and their daughter Amy. The Carters elected to walk the parade route from the Capitol to the White House following his inauguration in Washington, on Thursday, Jan. 20, 1977. (AP Photo/Suzanne Vlamis) U.S. President Jimmy Carter, center left, and first lady Rosalynn Carter hold hands as they walk down Pennsylvania Avenue during the inaugural parade in Washington, D.C., Jan. 20, 1977. Carter was sworn in as the nation’s 39th president during the inauguration ceremonies earlier. In the background is the U.S. Capitol building. (AP Photo) President Jimmy Carter and first lady Rosalynn Carter dance at one of the inaugural balls in Washington on Thursday, Jan. 20, 1977. Their daughter Amy watches them from her seat. (AP Photo) President Jimmy Carter, flanked by members of his cabinet, says he may urge industries to go on a four-day work week because of the energy emergency, Jan. 29, 1977. With the president, from left, are: Interior Secretary Cecil Andrus, energy advisor James Schlesinger, Carter, Defense Secretary Harold Brown, and Transportation Secretary Brock Adams. (AP Photo/John Duricka) President Jimmy Carter stands in the center of a crowd at the Westinghouse plant, east of Pittsburgh, Penn., Jan. 30, 1977, drawing attention to the fuel shortage. The plant, which employs about 9,000 in the manufacture of turbo generators, had its natural gas supply cut off. (AP Photo/John Duricka) President Jimmy Carter receives the applause of members of Congress who witnessed his signature on a bill creating the Department of Energy in a Rose Garden ceremony Thursday, August 4, 1977 at the White House in Washington. Shown directly behind the President, from left, are: Sen. Jennings Randolph; D-W. Va., Rep. Neal Smith, D-Iowa; Sen. Abraham Ribicoff; D-Conn.; Sen. Henry Jackson, D-Wash.; Rep. Jack Brooks, D-Texas; Rep. Frank Horton, R-N.Y., and Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W. Va. (AP Photo/Barry Thumma) In this Tuesday, Aug. 30, 1977 file photo, President Jimmy Carter meets with civic leaders from Georgia and Florida at the White House in Washington to explain his new Panama Canal treaty. On Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2015, Carter announced he had cancer and would undergo treatment at an Atlanta hospital. (AP Photo/Harvey Georges) In this Sept. 6, 1978, file photo provided by the White House, the principals in the Middle East Summit, from left, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, U.S. President Jimmy Carter, and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, meeting for the first time at Camp David, Md. For U.S. presidents, Camp David offers a respite from Washington where they can shed their ties and relax with family. The compound in the Maryland mountains just 60 miles from the capital features everything from a bowling alley to an archery range. It’s been used by every president since Franklin Delano Roosevelt first went there in 1943 as a personal hideaway, and has been the site of major diplomatic negotiations and policy discussions. (AP Photo, File) Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, left, U.S. President Jimmy Carter, center, and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin clasp hands on the north lawn of the White House March 26, 1979, as they completed the signing of the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel. Carter won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, Oct. 11, 2002, for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development. (AP Photo/Bob Daugherty, File) President Jimmy Carter, center left, and Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev, center right, wave to the waiting crowd outside the U.S. Embassy after both heads of state finished their first round of talks prior to the Monday Salt II Treaty signing, June 16, 1979, in Vienna, Austria. In the Brezhnev years, Washington and Moscow engaged in the so-called “detente” period that saw several arms treaties signed, improved trade relations and the Apollo-Soyuz spacecraft docking, the first joint mission in outer space. (AP Photo/File) In this July 15, 1979, file photo, college student Chuck McManis watches President Jimmy Carter’s nationally televised energy speech, which became known as the “malaise” speech, from a service station in Los Angeles, as a gas station attendant fills up a customer’s car. When Carter felt beset by pessimism amid the energy crisis in 1979, he gave a startling speech warning that a “crisis of confidence” posed a fundamental threat to U.S. democracy. (AP Photo/Mao, File) President Jimmy Carter waves from the roof of his car along the parade route through Bardstown, Ky., July 31, 1979. (AP Photo/Bob Daugherty, File) In this April 10, 1980 file photo, U.S. President Jimmy Carter calls for a question during a nationally televised news conference in the East Room of White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Dennis Cook, File) In this Nov. 4, 1980, file photo, President Jimmy Carter, accompanied by his wife Rosalynn, daughter Amy, and grandson Jason tells supporters at a Washington hotel that he has conceded the election to challenger Ronald Reagan. (AP Photo/File) President Jimmy Carter holds up the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act, which declared 104 million acres in Alaska as national parks, wildlife refuges and other conservation categories, after signing it into law in a ceremony in the White House, on Dec. 2, 1980. From left are: Rep. John F. Seiberling, D-Ohio; Rep. Morris Udall, D-Ariz; and Rep. Phillip Burton, D-Calif. Others present are not identified. (AP Photo) Former U.S. president Jimmy Carter, who came to Wiesbaden to greet the U.S. hostages released from captivity, embraces one of the former hostages, believed to be Bruce Laingen, Jan. 21, 1981. Others are unidentified. (AP Photo) President Ronald Reagan joined by former Presidents Richard Nixon, left, Gerald Ford, and Jimmy Carter, right, toast each other in the Blue Room at the White House on October 8, 1981 as the four met prior to the departure of the three former Presidents to Cairo for the funeral of President Sadat. Gerald R. Ford, who picked up the pieces of Richard Nixon’s scandal-shattered White House as the 38th and only unelected president in America’s history, has died, his wife, Betty, said Tuesday Dec. 26, 2006. He was 93. (AP Photo /White House) President George Bush, left, walks with former Presidents... Read More Details
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