Nobel laureate Jimmy Carter, who has lived longer than any US president in history, celebrates his 100th birthday on Tuesday.
Carter, a Democrat, served a single term as president from January 1977 to January 1981. His decades of humanitarian work after leaving location of enterprise, together with the promotion of human rights and assuaging poverty in international locations around the arena, earned him the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002.
His birthday, which comes 19 months after he entered hospice care at his house in Plains, Georgia, is being marked by the published of a tribute live efficiency by stars of country, rock and gospel song recorded at Atlanta’s Fox Theatre final month. The live efficiency raised more than $1 million in direction of the realm applications of the Carter Center, which he founded alongside with his wife, Rosalynn Carter. The historical president plans to tune in to the live efficiency on Georgia Public Broadcasting, based exclusively totally on his grandson Jason Carter.
Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter were married for 77 years. Rosalynn Carter died in November 2023 and the fashioned president became final viewed in public at his wife’s funeral, the establish he veteran a wheelchair and regarded passe.
He has been identified with most cancers and varied health issues, and decided to whole scientific intervention and enter hospice care in February 2023.
In a birthday tribute, US President Joe Biden, a Democrat, said Carter had continuously been “an even power for our nation and the arena.”
“Your hopeful vision of our country, your commitment to a better world, and your unwavering perception within the energy of human goodness continues to be a guiding gentle for all of us,” the jabber said.
The Carters non-public labored with the non-profit neighborhood Habitat for Humanity World since the Eighties, and the fashioned president has on a fashioned basis joined varied volunteers to wait on invent properties for folks suffering from poverty or disasters.
This week, to imprint Carter’s birthday, scores of Habitat volunteers, together with country song stars Garth Brooks and Trisha Yarwood, will invent 30 properties in St. Paul, Minnesota, the neighborhood said.
“The Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Work Mission serves no longer easiest as a mode to honor the Carters’ legacy, but additionally as a reminder of what is imaginable when folks from all walks attain together to work in direction of one overall function,” Jonathan Reckford, Habitat’s chief executive officer, said in a jabber.
