The Plains, Georgia, native was 100.
He has the full support of his family and his medical team.
In recent years, the Georgia native faced many health battles.
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Carter served as a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy before turning his focus to politics.
At the time of his death he was the oldest living U.S. president in history.
He passed George H.W.
Bush, who died at age 94 in 2018.
In 1978, President Carter facilitated the Camp David Accords.
He mediated the negotiations between Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat.
Begin and Sadat won the Nobel Peace Prize for this accomplishment.
In 1982, Jimmy and Rosalynn founded the Carter Center inAtlantain partnership with Emory University.
It was through the Carter Center that the former president launched a successful campaign to combat Guinea worm disease.
It will likely become the first human disease eradicated since smallpox.
Married over 75 years, Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter had the longest presidential marriage in history.
The final arrangements for President Carter’s state funeral are still pending.
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Our thoughts are with the entire Carter family at this time.
