— June 1946: Carter graduates from the U.S. Naval Academy.
— July 1946: Carter marries Rosalynn Smith, in Plains. They’ve 4 kids, John William (“Jack”), born 1947; James Earl third (“Chip”), 1950; Donnel Jeffrey (Jeff), 1952; and Amy Lynn, 1967.
— 1946-1953: Carter serves in a Navy nuclear submarine program, attaining rank of lieutenant commander.
— Summer time 1953: Carter resigns from the Navy, returns to Plains after father’s loss of life.
— 1953-1971: Carter helps run the household peanut farm and warehouse enterprise.
— 1963-1966: Carter serves within the Georgia state Senate.
— 1966: Carter tries unsuccessfully for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination.
— November 1970: Carter is elected governor of Georgia. Serves 1971-75.
— January 1976: Carter leads the Democratic area in Iowa, an enormous marketing campaign increase that additionally helps to ascertain Iowa’s first-in-the-nation caucus.
— July 1976: Carter accepts the Democratic nomination and pronounces Sen. Walter Mondale of Minnesota as working mate.
— November 1976: Carter defeats President Gerald R. Ford, profitable 51% of the vote and 297 electoral votes to Ford’s 240.
— January 1977: Carter is sworn in because the thirty ninth president of america. On his first full day in workplace, he pardons most Vietnam-era draft evaders.
—September 1977: U.S. and Panama signal treaties to return the Panama Canal again to Panama in 1999. Senate narrowly ratifies them in 1978.
— September 1978: Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Start and Carter signal Camp David accords, which result in a peace deal between Egypt and Israel the next 12 months.
— June 15-18, 1979: Carter attends a summit with Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev in Vienna that results in the signing of the SALT II treaty.
— November 1979: Iranian militants storm the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, taking 52 hostages. All survive and are freed minutes after Carter leaves workplace in January 1981.
— April 1980: The Mariel boatlift begins, sending tens of hundreds of Cubans to the U.S. Many are criminals and psychiatric sufferers let loose by Cuban chief Fidel Castro, creating a serious overseas coverage disaster.
— April 1980: An try by the U.S. to free hostages fails when a helicopter crashes right into a transport aircraft in Iran, killing eight servicemen.
— Nov. 4, 1980: Carter is denied a second time period by Ronald Reagan, who wins 51.6% of the favored vote to 41.7% for Carter and 6.7% to unbiased John Anderson.
— 1982: Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter co-found The Carter Heart in Atlanta, whose mission is to resolve conflicts, defend human rights and forestall illness all over the world.
— September 1984: The Carters spend every week constructing Habitat for Humanity homes, launching what turns into the annual Carter Work Challenge.
— October 1986: A dedication is held for The Carter Presidential Heart in Atlanta. The middle consists of the Carter Presidential Library and Museum and Carter Heart places of work.
— 1989: Carter leads the Carter Heart’s first election monitoring mission, declaring Panamanian Gen. Manuel Noriega’s election fraudulent.
— Might 1992: Carter meets with Mikhail and Raisa Gorbachev on the Carter Heart to debate forming the Gorbachev Basis.
— June 1994: Carter performs a key function in North Korea nuclear disarmament talks.
— September 1994: Carter leads a delegation to Haiti, arranging phrases to keep away from a U.S. invasion and return President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to energy.
— December 1994: Carter negotiates tentative cease-fire in Bosnia.
— March 1995: Carter mediates cease-fire in Sudan’s battle with southern rebels.
— September 1995: Carter travels to Africa to advance the peace course of in additional troubled areas.
— December 1998: Carter receives U.N. Human Rights Prize on fiftieth anniversary of the Common Declaration of Human Rights.
— August 1999: President Invoice Clinton awards Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
— September 2001: Carter joins former Presidents Ford, Bush and Clinton at a prayer service on the Nationwide Cathedral in Washington after Sept. 11 assaults.
— April 2002: Carter’s guide “An Hour Before Daylight: Memories of a Rural Boyhood” chosen as finalist for Pulitzer Prize in biography.
— Might 2002: Carter visits Cuba and addresses the communist nation on tv. He’s the highest-ranking American to go to in many years.
— Dec. 10, 2002: Carter is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his “untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development.”
— July 2007: Carter joins The Elders, a gaggle of worldwide leaders introduced collectively by Nelson Mandela to concentrate on international points.
— Spring 2008: Carter stays formally impartial as Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton battle one another for the Democratic presidential nomination.
— April 2008: Carter stirs controversy by assembly with the Islamic militant group Hamas.
— August 2010: Carter travels to North Korea because the Carter Heart negotiates the discharge of an imprisoned American trainer.
— August 2013: Carter joins President Barack Obama and former President Invoice Clinton on the fiftieth anniversary of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have A Dream” speech and the March on Washington.
— Oct. 1, 2014: Carter celebrates his ninetieth birthday.
— December 2014: Carter is nominated for a Grammy in one of the best spoken phrase album class, for his guide “A Call To Action.”
— Might 2015: Carter returns early from an election commentary go to in Guyana — the Carter Heart’s one centesimal — after feeling unwell.
— August 2015: Carter has a small cancerous mass faraway from his liver. He plans to obtain therapy at Emory Healthcare in Atlanta.
— August 2015: Carter pronounces that his grandson Jason Carter will chair the Carter Heart governing board.
— March 6, 2016: Carter says an experimental drug has eradicated any signal of his most cancers, and that he wants no additional therapy.
— Might 25, 2016: Carter steps again from a “front-line” function with The Elders to develop into an emeritus member.
— July 2016: Carter is handled for dehydration throughout a Habitat for Humanity construct in Canada.
— Spring 2018: Carter publishes “Faith: A Journey for All,” the final of 32 books.
— March 22, 2019: Carter turns into the longest-lived U.S. president, surpassing President George H.W. Bush, who died in 2018.
— September 18, 2019: Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter ship their last in-person annual report on the Carter Heart.
— October 2019: At 95, nonetheless recovering from a fall, Carter joins the Work Challenge with Habitat for Humanity in Nashville, Tennessee. It’s the final time he works personally on the annual challenge.
— Fall 2019-early 2020: Democratic presidential hopefuls go to, publicly embracing Carter as a celebration elder, a primary for his post-presidency.
— November 2020:The Carter Heart screens an audit of presidential election leads to the state of Georgia, marking a brand new period of democracy advocacy inside the U.S.
— Jan. 20, 2021: The Carters miss President Joe Biden’s swearing-in, the primary presidential inauguration they don’t attend since Carter’s personal ceremony in 1977. The Bidens later go to the Carters in Plains on April 29.
— Feb. 19, 2023: Carter enters house hospice care after a sequence of brief hospital stays.
— July 7, 2023: The Carters have a good time their 77th and last wedding ceremony anniversary.
— Nov. 19, 2023: Rosalynn Carter dies at house, two days after the household introduced that she had joined the previous president in receiving hospice care.
— Oct. 1, 2024 — Carter turns into the primary former U.S. president to succeed in 100 years of age, celebrating at house with prolonged household and shut mates.
— Oct. 16, 2024 — Carter casts a Georgia mail poll for Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris, having advised his household he needed to stay lengthy sufficient to vote for her. It marks his twenty first presidential election as a voter.
— Dec. 29, 2024: Carter dies at house.
Notable quotes:We generally tend to exalt ourselves and to dwell on the weaknesses and errors of others. I’ve come to appreciate that in each individual there’s something positive and pure and noble, together with a need for self-fulfillment. Political and spiritual leaders should try to offer a society inside which these human attributes might be nurtured and enhanced. — from 1975 guide “Why Not the Best?”
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Our authorities can specific the very best frequent beliefs of human beings — if we demand of presidency true requirements of excellence. At this Bicentennial time of introspection and concern, we should demand such requirements. — “Why Not the Best?”
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I’m a Southerner and an American, I’m a farmer, an engineer, a father and husband, a Christian, a politician and former governor, a planner, a businessman, a nuclear physicist, a naval officer, a canoeist, and amongst different issues a lover of Bob Dylan’s songs and Dylan Thomas’s poetry. — “Why Not the Best?”
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Christ mentioned, “I tell you that anyone who looks on a woman with lust has in his heart already committed adultery.” I’ve regarded on plenty of girls with lust. I’ve dedicated adultery in my coronary heart many occasions. That is one thing that God acknowledges I’ll do — and I’ve finished it — and God forgives me for it. However that doesn’t imply that I condemn somebody who not solely seems on a lady with lust however who leaves his spouse and shacks up with anyone out of wedlock. — Interview, November 1976 Playboy.
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This inauguration ceremony marks a brand new starting, a brand new dedication inside our Authorities, and a brand new spirit amongst us all. A President might sense and proclaim that new spirit, however solely a individuals can present it. — Inaugural deal with, January 1977.
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It’s clear that the true issues of our nation are a lot deeper — deeper than gasoline strains or vitality shortages, deeper even than inflation and recession. … All of the laws on the earth can’t repair what’s mistaken with America. … It’s a disaster of confidence. — So-called “malaise” speech, July 1979.
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However we all know that democracy is all the time an unfinished creation. Every era should renew its foundations. Every era should rediscover the that means of this hallowed imaginative and prescient within the gentle of its personal fashionable challenges. For this era, ours, life is nuclear survival; liberty is human rights; the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose sources are dedicated to the bodily and religious nourishment of its inhabitants. — Farewell Deal with, January 1981.
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We recognize the previous. We’re grateful for the current and we’re wanting ahead to the long run with nice anticipation and dedication. — October 1986, on the dedication of the Carter Presidential Library and Museum.
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Warfare might typically be a mandatory evil. However regardless of how mandatory, it’s all the time an evil, by no means an excellent. We is not going to study to stay collectively in peace by killing one another’s kids. — December 2002, Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech.
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Fundamentalists have develop into more and more influential in each faith and authorities, and have managed to vary the nuances and subtleties of historic debate into black-and-white rigidities and the non-public derogation of those that dare to disagree. … The affect of those numerous tendencies poses a menace to lots of our nation’s historic customs and ethical commitments, each in authorities and in homes of worship. — From 2005 guide “Our Endangered Values.”
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I feel that this breakthrough by Barack Obama has been outstanding. When he made his speech (on race) just a few months in the past in Philadelphia, I wept. I sat in entrance of the tv and cried, as a result of I noticed that as probably the most enlightening and remodeling evaluation of racism and a possible finish of it that I ever noticed in my life. — August 2008, commenting on then-Sen. Barack Obama’s candidacy.
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I feel it’s primarily based on racism. There’s an inherent feeling amongst many on this nation that an African-American shouldn’t be president. … Irrespective of who he’s or how a lot we disagree together with his insurance policies, the president needs to be handled with respect. — September 2009, reacting to Rep. Joe Wilson’s shout of “You lie!” throughout a speech to Congress by President Barack Obama.
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I’m nonetheless decided to survive the final guinea worm. — 2010, on The Carter Heart’s work to eradicate guinea worm illness.
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You know the way a lot I raised to run in opposition to Gerald Ford? Zero. You know the way a lot I raised to run in opposition to Ronald Reagan? Zero. You know the way a lot will likely be raised this 12 months by all presidential, Senate and Home campaigns? $6 billion. That’s 6,000 tens of millions. — September 2012, reacting to the 2010 “Citizens United” U.S. Supreme Courtroom determination allowing limitless third-party political spending.
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I’ve develop into satisfied that probably the most severe and unaddressed worldwide problem is the deprivation and abuse of girls and ladies, largely attributable to a false interpretation of fastidiously chosen non secular texts and a rising tolerance of violence and warfare, sadly following the instance set throughout my lifetime by america. — From 2014 guide “A Call to Action.”
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We settle for self-congratulations in regards to the fantastic fiftieth anniversary – which is fantastic – however we really feel like Lyndon Johnson did it and we don’t should do something anymore. — April 2014, commenting on racial inequality throughout a celebration of the Civil Rights Act’s fortieth anniversary.
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I had a really difficult query at Emory (College) the opposite evening: “How would you describe the United States of America today in one word?” And I didn’t know what to say for just a few moments, however I lastly mentioned, “Searching.” I feel the nation wherein we stay remains to be looking for what it should be, and what it may be, and I’m unsure we’re making a lot progress proper at this second. — October 2014 throughout a celebration of his ninetieth birthday.
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The life we now have now’s one of the best of all. We’ve got an increasing and harmonious household, a wealthy life in our church and the Plains neighborhood, and a variety of tasks at The Carter Heart that’s adventurous and thrilling. Rosalynn and I’ve visited greater than 145 nations, and each of us are as energetic as we now have ever been. We’re blessed with good well being and look to the long run with eagerness and confidence, however are ready for inevitable adversity when it comes. — From 2015 guide, “A Full Life.”
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