Former President Jimmy Carter turned 100 years old on Tuesday, October 1st, becoming the first US president to reach the 100-year milestone.
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When James Earl Carter Jr. was born in 1924 in the small farming town of Plains, Georgia, the United States still had 48 states. Wheaties cereal was just starting to appear on grocery store shelves, President Calvin Coolidge was inaugurated, and Babe Ruth was on his way to becoming MLB's American League batting champion.
…A Navy engineer turned peanut farmer, he won election to the Georgia Senate in 1962 and won the Peach State gubernatorial race in 1971.
…Carter entered the White House in 1976 after winning the Democratic presidential election against incumbent President Gerald Ford.
Carter lost to Ronald Reagan in 1980 and is seen as a failed president due to economic stagnation and foreign policy turmoil, including the Iran hostage crisis that plagued his final year in office. he won He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 for his work on the 1978 Camp David Accords, which brought peace between Israel and Egypt.
He is also seen as a destructive former president, having botched efforts to isolate North Korea during the Clinton administration and leading efforts to demonize Israel by calling it an “apartheid” state.
Mr. Carter's wife, former first lady Rosalynn Carter, died less than a year ago at the age of 96.
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