Former US President Jimmy Carter passes away

• Former US President Jimmy Carter died on December 29, 2024, at the age of 100.

• Carter was awarded the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize for his humanitarian work. He had a cancer called melanoma.

• On March 22, 2019, he became the longest-living chief executive officer in US history.

• Jimmy Carter, a peanut farmer from Georgia, became president in January 1977.

• Carter, a Democrat, defeated incumbent Republican President Gerald Ford in the 1976 election. He served as the 39th president of the US.