James Carter

• James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. (born October 1, 1924) served as

the 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981.
• The Carter family originated from southern England (Carter's paternal
ancestor arrived in the American Colonies in 1635).
• While he was in high school he was in the Future Farmers of America ,
which later changed its name to the National FFA Organization ,
serving as the Plains FFA Chapter Secretary.
• He married Rosalynn Smith in 1946.
• He was a peanut farmer and a naval officer before.
• He is a cousin of Motown founder Berry Gordy Jr. on his mother's side,
and a cousin of the late June Carter Cash.
• Carter served two terms as a Georgia State Senator and one
as Governor of Georgia, from 1971 to 1975.
• He was the first statewide office holder in the Deep South to say this in
public.
• As president, Carter created two new cabinet-level departments:
the Department of Energy and the Department of Education.
• He established a national energy policy that included conservation,
price control, and new technology.
• Carter pursued the Camp David Accords, the Panama Canal
Treaties and the second round of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT
II).
• Carter strongly emphasized human rights.
• He took office during a period of international stagflation which
persisted throughout his term and eroded his popularity.
• Carter supported legalized abortion.
• In 1973, while Governor of Georgia, Carter filed a report on his 1969
UFO sighting with the International UFO Bureau in Oklahoma City.
• On January 7, 1980, Carter signed Law H.R. 5860 aka Public Law 96-
185 known as The Chrysler Corporation Loan Guarantee Act of 1979
bailing out Chrysler Corporation.
• He canceled military pay raises during a time of high inflation and
government deficits.
• Jimmy Carter and Walter Mondale are the longest-living post-
presidential team in American history.
• Jimmy Carter is one of only four presidents and the only one in modern
history, who did not have an opportunity to nominate a judge to serve
on theSupreme Court.
• In 1982, he established The Carter Center in Atlanta to advance human
rights and alleviate unnecessary human suffering.
• Carter played a key role in negotiation of the Nairobi Agreement in
1999 between Sudan and Uganda.
• Carter and experts from The Carter Center assisted unofficial Israeli
and Palestinian negotiators in designing a model agreement for peace
called theGeneva Accord in 2002–2003.
• Carter has also in recent years become a frequent critic of Israel's
policies in Lebanon, West Bank, and Gaza.
• He was the recipient of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, the only U.S.
President to have received the Prize after leaving office.
• Due to his status as former President, Carter was a super delegate to
the 2008 Democratic National Convention.