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Is Jimmy Carter still alive or dead?

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James Earl Carter Jr. is an American retired politician who served as the 39th president of the United States from 1977 to 1981. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as a Georgia state senator from 1963 to 1967, and as the 76th governor of Georgia from 1971 to 1975.

Is Jimmy Carter still alive or dead?

Carter is still alive and he has been the oldest living president since the death of George H. W. Bush in 2018, and he is also the third oldest living person to have served as a nation’s leader.

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Carter was born October 1, 1924, in Plains, Georgia at the Wise Sanitarium, where his mother worked as a registered nurse. With this, Carter became the first American president to be born in a hospital. He was the eldest son of Bessie Lillian and James Earl Carter Sr. Carter, a descendant of English immigrant Thomas Carter, who settled in the Colony of Virginia in 1635.

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Numerous generations of Carters lived as cotton farmers in Georgia. Plains was a boomtown of 600 people at the time of Carter’s birth. His father was a successful local businessman, who ran a general store and was an investor in farmland. During World War I, Carter’s father had previously served as a reserve second lieutenant in the U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps.

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