Jimmy Carter, a former US president and Nobel Peace Prize winner, has died at the age of 100
Carter won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 for working to support human rights and solve conflicts in places like Ethiopia, Eritrea, Bosnia, and Haiti. His Carter Center in Atlanta sent teams to monitor elections in different countries.
Carter was born and grew up in Plains, Georgia. He graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1946 and served in the Navy’s submarine division. After leaving the Navy, he returned home to help his family’s peanut farm and later entered Georgia politics. He supported civil rights as a state senator and then as governor. In 1976, Carter, an unknown candidate, won the Democratic presidential nomination and defeated Republican President Gerald Ford in the election.
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