Jimmy Carter served as the 39th president of the United States from 1977 to 1981. (Diana Walker/Getty Images)
The late former president himself had entered hospice care in February 2023. Carter survived for years after he had a "small mass" removed from his liver in early August 2015 and later that month announced he had liver cancer that had spread throughout his body.
The Carter family had a history of cancer and the former president lost his father, brother, and two sisters to pancreatic cancer. His mother had breast cancer, which later spread to her pancreas.
Jason Carter, Carter's grandson, had announced in May that he believed the former president was "coming to the end" of his life's journey. But the former president hung on much longer.
The soft-spoken leader with a signature Georgia drawl saw his single term in the Oval Office clouded by an economic downturn at home and a hostage crisis abroad.
His post-presidency life was marked by a very visible dedication to service, but also a series of sometimes controversial moves as he continued to wade into foreign affairs, particularly as it related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Carter met with the leadership of terrorist group and Palestinian representative Hamas in 2009 and 2015. He reprimanded Israel for its operations against Hamas in 2014, saying there was "no justification in the world for what Israel is doing."
Then-Vice President Walter Mondale and then-Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill listen as President Jimmy Carter delivers his State of the Union Address to a joint session of the U.S. Congress in the Capitol on Jan. 23, 1980. (Arnie Sachs/CNP/Getty Images)
He has cited the Panama Canal treaties and the Camp David accords that brought peace between Egypt and Israel as among his greatest personal accomplishments.
"We focused on peace," he told The Washington Post in 2014. "We never shot a bullet or dropped a bomb on anyone."
But peace wasn’t always easily maintained, and a perceived lack of strength in dealing with bad actors likely contributed to his lopsided 1980 defeat by Ronald Reagan.
The final 14 months of his presidency were dominated by the Iran hostage crisis. Following the country’s revolution, the new government took 52 American hostages. Carter was never able to retrieve the detained Americans or negotiate for their release. In an obvious snub, Iran finally released the 52 after they had been held for 444 days — on the same day Carter left office.
From left to right: Former Presidents Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford, and Jimmy Carter. (HUM Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
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Upon leaving the White House, Carter, who authored 28 books, was named a distinguished professor at Emory University in Atlanta and founded The Carter Center, a nonprofit organization focusing on national and international public policy. Carter told The Associated Press that he had the "best times" of his life after establishing the organization in 1982.
"This beautiful place on Earth that has set moral and ethical standards that exemplify what a superpower like America ought to be," Carter said of the center in October.
Recalling the manual labor of his youth in Plains, Carter was often seen volunteering and fundraising for Habitat for Humanity, helping to build homes for the needy.
Former president Jimmy Carter is pictured prior to the game between the Atlanta Falcons and the Cincinnati Bengals at Mercedes-Benz Stadium on Sept. 30, 2018, in Atlanta. (Scott Cunningham/Getty Images)
Carter also served as a member of The Elders, a group of independent global leaders no longer in politics whose ranks at one time included South African President Nelson Mandela, Irish President Mary Robinson and United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
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In his spare time, Carter, a deeply religious man who served as a deacon in the Maranatha Baptist Church of Plains, enjoyed fishing, running and woodworking.
Carter is survived by his four children, his 12 grandchildren, and 14 great-grandchildren.
This article was written by Fox News staff.
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