Jimmy Carter Dies at 100: America's Longest-Lived President
Jimmy Carter died in December 2024 in Plains, Georgia, one hundred years old. He was, at his death, the oldest person ever to have served as U.S. President. He was also the president with the longest post-presidential career — forty-three years of building Habitat for Humanity houses, monitoring elections in conflict zones, negotiating with North Korea on his own initiative, and eradicating Guinea worm disease from Africa. He lost reelection in 1980 in a landslide. He spent the next four decades building what some historians call the most consequential post-presidency in American history.
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