Jimmy Carter was the perfect candidate for 1976, columnist George Skelton writes, and he was an exceptional ex-president. In ...

National Geographic photographer Jodi Cobb took a detour into the town of Plains, Georgia—and found a town giddy with the ...

Something about his interaction with the late U.S. President Jimmy Carter at a 10K road race in Maryland back in September ...

Meanwhile, in south Georgia, another Democrat was plotting his first run for political office: Jimmy Carter had his eye on the state Senate. “One of the reasons Carter said he got into that race ...

As a legislator, governor, president and ex-president, he confronted the prejudices that were so much a part of where and ...

Jimmy Carter was the only prominent white man in ... Just days before the all-important Democratic primary in 1962, Carter decided to run for the state Senate. He ran not only against a ...

The route also included the old train depot that served as Jimmy Carter's 1976 presidential campaign headquarters and the gas station once run by Carter's younger brother Billy. The motorcade passed ...

When I arrived at the White House, there were Rosalynn and the president, the leader of the free world holding his bible. I ...

James Earl Carter Jr. was announced by one of our young newsroom copy clerks as “that governor from Georgia who thinks he can run for president.” Yes, as a young reporter in that newsroom, I remember ...

Jimmy Carter grew up on his family's peanut farm in Archery, Georgia Carter lived at the farm from the age of 4 until he departed for college in 1941. Carter's family didn't have running water ...

A number of central Ohioans who worked and campaigned for former President Jimmy Carter have fond memories of him.