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Some interesting facts about Jimmy Carter:
James Earl Carter, Jr. was born on October 1, 1924 in Plains, Georgia, a small hamlet of just 500 people. He continues to live in Plains, in the same small house for more than 60 years.
He was the first US President born in a hospital. Calvin Coolidge was president at the time of his birth.
He grew up on a farm where his father oversaw African American sharecroppers. While his father was known to be a white supremacist, his mother frequently provided free medical care to their black neighbors, which had an impact on Jimmy.
Although they were among the wealthier families in town, his boyhood home had no electricity or running water for the first 11 years of his life. People who knew him in his youth recalled that Jimmy rarely wore shoes.
He graduated from the United States Naval Academy and served as a submariner.
Jimmy Carter is the longest-lived US President, surpassing George H.W. Bush by more than 5 years. He has had the longest post-presidency retirement of any POTUS, surpassing Herbert Hoover by more than 12 years.
President Carter has witnessed 7 of his successors sworn into office (Reagan, Bush I, Clinton, Bush II, Obama, Trump, and Biden). If he lives to January 20, 2025, he will tie the record of 8 (held by Martin Van Buren -- all of his successors served one term or less [looking at you, William Henry Harrison], so Carter tying the record is largely insignificant).
President Carter was born several years before Martin Luther King, Jr. and Anne Frank (1929). He was born three years before the invention of the first working electronic television.
Carter has written more than 30 books, more than any other president.
Carter won the Nobel Peace Prize, in 2002 during his retirement, for his efforts in finding “peaceful solutions to international conflicts, advancing democracy and human rights, and promoting economic and social development.” Only three other presidents have won the prize
I hope Walz gives him a shout out in the Debate tonight.
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