In all the images history can collect of a U.S. president, only a handful become iconic. For former President Jimmy Carter, ...

Former President Jimmy Carter is marking his 100th birthday — the first former president in United States history to do so.

In 1998, at the ripe age of 74, former President Carter put some of his thoughts about getting older to paper. “The virtues ...

“My name is Jimmy Carter,” he wrote. “In my lifetime, I have been a farmer, a naval officer, a Sunday school teacher, an ...

The former President graduated from the Naval Academy and was a pioneer in the use of nuclear power in submarines.

Jimmy Carter holds a unique place in US politics: he is the oldest former president and a Nobel peace laureate, who left ...

The 39th president of the United States made several stops in Maine on the campaign trail, and even spent the night in the ...

Gerald Ford remains the only person who became commander-in-chief without being elected either president or vice-president.

The former president was elected while serving as a Southern Baptist deacon. But he was never fully welcomed by white ...

The former president left active military duty in 1953, served in the Navy Reserve until 1961 and left with the rank of ...

Despite some problematic statements and actions, former president Jimmy Carter accomplished much for the Jewish people ...

A hundred foreign nationals became citizens in a naturalization ceremony on Jimmy Carter’s 100th birthday in his hometown of ...