Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter passed away on Dec. 29, 2024. (Paul Hennessy/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Carter earned a Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 "for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development," its website states.
The Plains, Georgia, native undertook peace negotiations, campaigned for human rights and worked for social welfare while President George W. Bush was planning war on Iraq in the fall of 2002.
Former President Jimmy Carter is seen here at the starting day of the 24th Jimmy Carter Work Project in Los Angeles, California, on Oct. 29, 2007. (Mario Anzuoni/File Photo)
For his humanitarian work, Craig Shirley, a Reagan biographer and historian, said Carter will be remembered as "one of the best ex-presidents of the 20th century."
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"We’re going to remember him kindly. He was a terrific former president with what he did with the Carter Center and the various initiatives around the country. His book writing stands out [as does] his charitable works. So, he goes down in his history as an extraordinarily good former president."
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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