A one-term former governor and peanut farmer from Georgia ... party saying, “He can’t be the President; I don’t even know him!” according to Carter biographer Kai Bird. Yet when the ...

This story originally appeared on Georgia Recorder. Jimmy Carter would chart a new course for the state at the start of his four-year term serving as Georgia’s governor when he used his inauguration ...

Authentic. Peacemaker. Humanitarian. These are a few of the words students and professors at the University of Georgia used ...

In the early months of 1976, New Jersey's Democratic Party establishment did not roll out a welcome mat for Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn. But a 27-year-old Ruth Puglisi — now ...

Jimmy Carter—the 39th president of the United States, who died on Dec. 29 at 100—was laid to rest at the Georgia home he ...

Jimmy Carter was allowed ... Greek and Jewish communities ran the local Democratic Party, his lounge was the nexus of the political universe. Enter Carter, a young state senator bold enough ...

Jimmy Carter was in office from 1977 until 1981, but it was his life outside the White House that has continued to speak volumes ...

It was signed “Jimmy ... party after my primary challenge, I was being asked to upgrade my effort and get even more involved in Democratic politics. This showed the savvy that took a lame-duck ...

MLK's daughter spoke to Newsweek about the different trajectories of two Georgia natives, and how they aligned in the fight ...

Mr. Carter witnessed a shift from what had been a solidly Democratic South to one that Republicans, supported by white voters and particularly evangelicals, came to dominate. By Richard Fausset On ...

"Our founder, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, passed away this afternoon in Plains, Georgia," the ... Carter grew into a national Democratic Party leader and won the 1976 presidential election ...