Jimmy Carter

BIRTH NAME
James Earl Carter, Jr.

POLITICAL PARTY
Democrat

RELIGION
Baptist

EDUCATION
Georgia Southwestern State University; Georgia Institute Technology; US Naval Academy BS 1946

VITALS
5 ft 9.5 in / 160 lbs

CAREER
1946-53 Ensign, then lieutenant junior grade, U.S. Navy
1952-53 Naval Reactors Branch, Atomic Energy Commission, Washington, D.C.
1953-71 Peanut Farmer, Plains, Georgia
1963-66 State Senator, Georgia
1971-75 Governor of Georgia

PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
November 2, 1976
Popular: Carter 40,830,763 (50%) Gerald R. Ford 39,147,793 (48%)
Electoral: Carter 297 Ford 240 Ronald Reagan 1

VICE PRESIDENT
Walter Mondale (1977-81)

ADMINISTRATION
Vietnam War draft evaders pardoned, Department of Energy (1977); Camp David Accords (1978); Crisis of Confidence speech, Department of Health & Human Services, Department of Education, Iran hostage crisis (1979); Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, Olympics boycott (1980)

FIRST LADY
Eleanor Rosalyn Smith (1977-81)

POST-PRESIDENCY
1982 Founder, Carter Center, Atlanta, Georgia
1982-2019 Author, 30 books
2002 Nobel Peace Prize

“The search for peace also means the search for justice.”
Address to the United Nations General Assembly, March 17, 1977

Portrait of Jimmy Carter by Herbert Abrams, 1982.