The 39th US president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Jimmy Carter has died at the age of 100
Former US President Jimmy Carter, attending the Ninth Annual NGO forum on Human Rights, in Croke Park Dublin in 2007.
Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill / The Irish Times
Mon Dec 30 2024 - 12:49
The Carter Center has said its founder Jimmy Carter, who was the oldest living former US president, died peacefully on Sunday, December 29th, at his home in Plains, the town where he was born in Georgia. He was 100.
A portrait of Jimmy Carter as a young boy in Georgia in the 1920s. Photograph: Corbis via Getty Images
Future US president Jimmy Carter as an ensign during the second World War. Photograph: PhotoQuest/Getty Images
President Jimmy Carter tours the desolation around Charlotte Street in the Bronx October 5th, 1977. In a trip as symbolic as it was sudden, the president visited the South Bronx to reinforce his commitment to cities and, more specifically, to New York. Photograph: Teresa Zabala/The New York Times.
Former president Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, at their cabin in Ellijay in August 1983. Photograph: Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times
Former president Jimmy Carter, who traveled with a group from Georgia, does carpentry work at a building being renovated into apartments by Habitat for Humanity at 742 East Sixth Street in the Lower East Side neighborhood of Manhattan in September 1984. Photograph: Dith Pran/The New York Times
President Jimmy Carter and first lady Rosalynn Carter walk with their daughter Amy down Pennsylvania Avenue during the 1977 Inaugural Parade in Washington on January 20th, 1977. Photograph: Paul Hosefros/The New York Times
President Jimmy Carter and vice-president Walter Mondale at the Democratic National Convention at Madison Square Garden in New York, on August 14th, 1980. Photograph: Teresa Zabala/The New York Times
President Jimmy Carter and first lady Rosalynn Carter dance during an inauguration ball in Washington in January 1977. Photograph: Eddie Hausner/The New York Times
Jimmy Carter, the Democratic front runner for the presidential nomination, in a pond as he and friends drain a pond and catch fish for a fry the next day in Plains in his hometown of Plains in June 1976. Photograph: George Tames/The New York Times
Former US president Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalyn travelling by carriage in the Newcastle lord mayor's parade in 1987. Photograph : PA Wire
President Jimmy Carter waves from the roof of his car along the parade route through Bardstown, Kentucky. Photograph: Bob Daugherty/AP
US president Jimmy Carter is seen here with wife Rosalynn and Shannon Airport's Michael Guerin tasting an Irish coffee during a visit post-presidency.
Then taoiseach Jack Lynch (left) and then president of the US Jimmy Carter during a White House ceremony on November 8th, 1979 in Washington DC. Photograph: NBC/NBC NewsWire
President Michael D Higgins meeting members of the Elders including Jimmy Carter, former president of the US, at Áras an Uachtaráin in 2013. Photograph: Alan Betson / The Irish Times
Former US president Jimmy Carter with his wife Rosalynn photographed in Government Buildings during a courtesy call on then taoiseach Bertie Ahern. Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons/The Irish Times
Former Irish president Mary Robinson and former US president Jimmy Carter. Photograph: Jeff Moore/The Elders
President Mary Robinson meeting former-US president Jimmy Carter (right) and Billy Hutchinson, one of the leaders of the Loyalist Progressive Unionist Party, in Dublin in 1995. Photograph: Martin McCullough/PA Wire
Former US president Jimmy Carter, furthest right, in a group photo with his successors at the White House on January 7th, 2009. From left: George HW Bush; president-elect Barack Obama; president George W. Bush and Bill Clinton. Photograph: Doug Mills/The New York Times
Former President Jimmy Carter and Rosalynn Carter, at home in Plains in 2017. Ms Carter, who helped propel him from rural Georgia to the White House in a decade and became the most politically active first lady since Eleanor Roosevelt, died on November 19th, 2023 aged 96. Photograph: Dustin Chambers/The New York Times
Former president Jimmy Carter in New York, on October 8th, 2007. Photograph: Damon Winter/The New York Times
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