James Earl Carter Sr. was an American politician and businessman who represented Sumter County in the Georgia House of Representatives from January 1953 until his death in July 1953. He was the father and namesake of the 39th president of the United States, Jimmy Carter, and the husband of Bessie Lillian Carter.
Who was Jimmy Carter’s father James Earl Carter Sr.?
Carter Sr. was born in Arlington, Georgia on September 12, 1894. He was the fourth of five children born to William Archibald Carter and Nina Pratt. In 1904, after his father was murdered by a business partner – which the nine-year-old James witnessed – the Carter family moved to Plains, Georgia.
Carter Sr. married Lillian Gordy Carter on September 27, 1923, in a Plains ceremony. According to their son Jimmy, Carter was engaged to another woman at the time of first meeting Lillian and had already planned out the wedding before boarding a train and disappearing for three months. After that time, Carter returned and initiated his courtship of Lillian. The couple had four children and live happily.
Carter Sr. died of pancreatic cancer on July 22, 1953, at the age of 58, two months before his 59th birthday. Three of his four children also died of pancreatic cancer.
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