Bouquets of flowers and peanuts are placed at the base of a bust of former President Jimmy Carter at the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum Sunday, Dec. 29, 2024, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)
ATLANTA (AP): Jimmy Carter, the peanut farmer who tried to restore virtue to the White House after the Watergate scandal and Vietnam War, then rebounded from a landslide defeat to become a global advocate of human rights and democracy, has died. He was 100 years old.
The Carter Center said the 39th president died Sunday afternoon (Dec 29), more than a year after entering hospice care, at his home in Plains, Georgia, where he and his wife, Rosalynn, who died in November 2023, lived most of their lives. The centre said he died peacefully, surrounded by his family.
