President Jimmy Carter

President Jimmy Carter

President James Earl Carter, also known as Jimmy Carter was the thirty-ninth president of the United States. He was born on October 1, 1924, in Plains, Georgia. His father James Earl Carter Sr. was a farmer and a businessman. His mother Lilian Gordy Carter, was a nurse.

He was schooled in the public schools of Plains, and attend Georgia Southwestern College and the Georgia Institute of Technology. He also achieved a B.S. degree from the United States Naval Academy. Jimmy became a submariner, and served the Atlantic and Pacific fleets and became a lieutenant. He took graduate work at Union College in reactor technology and nuclear physics. He became a senior officer of the "Seawolf", the second nuclear submarine.

He married Roselyn Smith from Plains on July 7, 1946. When his father died in 1953, he resigned his naval commision and returned to his family. He took over the farm, he and Roselyn ran Carter's Warehouse, a seed and farm supply company in Plains. In 1962 he won the election to the Georgia Senate. He lost his first campaign in 1966, but he won the next election, becoming Georgia's 76th governor on January 12, 1971. He was the Democratic National Committee campaign chairman in the 1974 congressional and gubbernatorial election.

On December 12, 1974, he announced his candidacy. James Earl Carter was elected president on November 2, 1976. He served as president from January 20, 1977, to January 20, 1981. Most of his accomplishments were to solve international conflicts around the world. He started a foundation called "The Carter Center". The foundation was meant to resolve conflict, promote democracy, protect human rights, to prevent diseases and other afflictions. President Carter and The Carter Center resolved conflict all around the world from about 1989-2010, and they haven't stopped.

On December 10, 2002, the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the Nobel Prize for 2002 to Jimmy Carter, "for decades of untiring efforts to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights and to promote economice and social development."