A one-term former governor and peanut farmer from Georgia ... party saying, “He can’t be the President; I don’t even know him!” according to Carter biographer Kai Bird. Yet when the ...

From Plains to Atlanta, mourners in Georgia will pay their respects to Jimmy Carter. The service begins six days of funeral ...

This story originally appeared on Georgia Recorder. Jimmy Carter would chart a new course for the state at the start of his four-year term serving as Georgia’s governor when he used his inauguration ...

President Jimmy Carter was honored in a state funeral in Washington on Thursday, alongside a private memorial in Georgia.

In the early months of 1976, New Jersey's Democratic Party establishment did not roll out a welcome mat for Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn. But a 27-year-old Ruth Puglisi — now ...

Mr. Carter witnessed a shift from what had been a solidly Democratic South to one that Republicans, supported by white voters and particularly evangelicals, came to dominate. By Richard Fausset On ...

Carter made several significant visits to Wisconsin, including building Habitat for Humanity homes in Milwaukee in 1989.

MLK's daughter spoke to Newsweek about the different trajectories of two Georgia natives, and how they aligned in the fight ...

"Our founder, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, passed away this afternoon in Plains, Georgia," the ... Carter grew into a national Democratic Party leader and won the 1976 presidential election ...

It was signed “Jimmy ... party after my primary challenge, I was being asked to upgrade my effort and get even more involved in Democratic politics. This showed the savvy that took a lame-duck ...

into Jimmy Carter, the bona fide presidential contender. It was a tall order for a first-term Georgia governor ... sketched ...