Jimmy Carter, 39th US president, Nobel winner, passes away at 100

A moderate Democrat, Carter ran for president in 1976 as a little-known Georgia governor with a broad grin and effusive Baptist faith

- Associated Press

ATLANTA: Jimmy Carter, the peanut farmer who tried to restore virtue to the White House after the Watergate scandal and Vietnam War, then rebounded from a landslide defeat to become a global advocate of human rights and democracy, has died. He was 100 years old.

The Carter Center said the 39th president died on Sunday afternoon, roughly 22 months after entering hospice care, at his home in Plains, Georgia, where he and his wife, Rosalynn, who died in November 2023, lived most of their lives. The center said he died peacefully, surrounded by his family.