Jimmy Carter, the oldest residing former U.S. president in historical past, died in the present day at his house in Plains, Georgia, on the age of 100. Carter served within the U.S. Navy from 1946 to 1953, then returned to Georgia to take up his household’s peanut-farming enterprise. He was elected as Georgia’s 76th governor in 1970, and went on to win his bid for the U.S. presidency in 1976. Throughout Carter’s single time period as president, he labored to advertise peace within the Center East and restrict the expansion of nuclear weapons, and he pushed Congress to create the Division of Power—however these years have been additionally marked by a nationwide vitality disaster, double-digit inflation, and the Iran hostage disaster. After dropping to Ronald Reagan within the 1980 presidential election, Carter returned to his modest house in Plains, Georgia, and shortly started endeavor diplomatic missions, volunteering with Habitat for Humanity, and instructing Sunday faculty at his native church. In 2002, Carter was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his lifelong work. Beneath, a set of pictures of Jimmy Carter’s exceptional lifetime of service.