Jimmy Carter, the World's Oldest Living President, Passes Away

At the age of 100, Georgia's peanut farmer Jimmy Carter, who ascended to the presidency during the Vietnam War and the Watergate affair, died on Sunday. Renowned for his humanitarian efforts, Carter passed quietly at Plains, Georgia, surrounded by family, following hospice treatment 22 months earlier. November 2023: Rosalynn, his wife, died.

Mourning the loss of its founder, the Carter Center revealed his death in a social media post. President Joe Biden considered Carter's extraordinary accomplishments in world peace, illness eradication, human rights, and his unflinching devotion to serving others as accolades flowed in.

Biden said in a statement Carter is a "extraordinary leader, statesman, and humanitarian," applauding his lifetime efforts to improve the planet. He also recalled their similar cancer fight as well as the solace Carter gave after Biden's son Beau died in 2015.

Declared January 9 as the National Day of Mourning, Biden set aside that day for a state burial for Carter in Washington, D.C. In honor of the past president, U.S. flags will fly at half-staff for thirty days.

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