Former US President Jimmy Carter has died

Former US President Jimmy Carter has passed away.

Former US President Jimmy Carter has died. The 39th US president died at the age of 100.

The Jimmy Carter Center announced this information in a statement on Sunday local time.

According to CNS sources, Carter was the 39th president of the United States. He was the US president for one term. He had been in hospice care in his hometown of Plains, Georgia since February last year.

According to information, Jimmy Carter is the longest-lived president in US history. He was the first US president to reach his 100th birthday. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 for his work on human rights.

Carter's journey began in the small town of Plains, Georgia. He was born there on October 1, 1924. As an officer in the US Navy, he helped develop the nuclear submarine fleet after World War II. After serving as an officer in the Navy, Carter returned to his hometown in 1953 to run the family peanut farming business.

He entered politics in the 1960s and served two terms as a Georgia legislator before becoming the state's 76th governor from 1971 to 1975.

In the 1976 presidential election, Carter, a Democrat, ran against Republican incumbent Gerald Ford, who had been sworn in as president after Richard Nixon resigned in the wake of the Watergate scandal. Carter defeated Ford to become president.