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Our state of Georgia, one of the nation’s original 17 colonies, has only given the nation one president, James Earl “Jimmy” Carter of Plains, Georgia. Woodrow Wilson spent many years of his legal ...

Many believe the ultimate accomplishment for any American citizen is to be elected president of the United States. Though in ...

Whatever ceremonial respect Jimmy Carter gets paid while he's lying in state, it's unlikely to change his historical reputation as a second-rater. The scholars who fill out the presidential rankings ...

Jan. 9, federal departments and agencies will close in observation of the former president’s death as he lays in state in Washington, D.C.

The life of James Earl Carter Jr., the 39th and longest-lived U.S. president, ended Sunday at the age of 100 where it began: Plains, the town of 600 that fueled his political rise, welcomed him after ...

In announcing the day of mourning, he said: “I call on the American people to assemble on that day in their respective places of worship, there to pay homage to the memory of President James Earl ...

James Earl “Jimmy” Carter Jr., the 39th president ... speaking to Carter’s ability to connect across political lines. Aretha Franklin sang “God Bless America” at Carter’s request ...

Jimmy Carter, the 39th President of the United States, will be eulogized at a state funeral Thursday at the National ...

Presidents who died in office following Lincoln were also honored, including James Garfield, William McKinley, Warren G. Harding and Franklin Roosevelt. Lyndon Johnson’s first presidential ...

President Carter – full name James Earl Carter Jr. – served as the 39th ... his inauguration celebration in 1977, with Aretha Franklin singing ‘God Bless America’. Paul Simon also ...