The peanut farmer from Georgia was a virtual unknown when he launched his long-shot 1976 presidential bid that took him from ...

US Presidents, despite courting the Irish-American vote, always took a neutral position on the thorny Irish question and in ...

The longest-lived American president died on Sunday, more than a year after entering hospice care, at his home in the small town of Plains, Georgia.

Despite his difficulties in office, Carter had few rivals for accomplishments as a former president. He gained global acclaim ...

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has died. He was 100 years old and had spent more than a year in hospice care.

President-elect Trump’s nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to run the Health and Human Services Department has been met with ...

ATLANTA (AP) — Jimmy Carter, the peanut farmer who won the presidency in the wake of the Watergate scandal and Vietnam War, ...

Presidents often help plan the memorials themselves, right down to the kind of casket, the seating arrangements or the route ...

"I think he will be remembered as one of the best former presidents the United States ever had," a UCF political science professor said.

He defeated then-President Gerald R. Ford to win the presidency and served a single term from 1977 through 1981. Carter, a Democrat, lost reelection to Republican Ronald Reagan. During his term, ...

Jimmy Carter was a former one-term governor from Georgia, almost unknown nationally, when he broke through in Iowa and New ...