Born
Plains, Georgia, October 1, 1924, the son of James Earl and Lillian (Gordy) Carter

Married
Rosalynn Smith, July 7, 1946

Children
John William, James Earl III, Donnel Jeffrey, Amy Lynn

Student
Georgia Southwestern College, 1941 - 42
Georgia Institute of Technology, 1942 - 43
B.S., US Naval Academny, 1946 (class of 1947).

Postgraduate
Union College, 1952 - 53
LL.D. (hon.), Morehouse College, 1972; Morris Brown College, 1972; University of Notre Dame, 1977; Emory University, 1979; Kwansei Gakuin University, 1981; Georgia Southwestern College, 1981; New York Law School, 1985; Bates College, 1985; Centre College, 1987; Creighton University, 1987; University of Pennsylvania, 1998
D.E. (hon.), Georgia Institute of Technology, 1979
Ph.D. (hon.), Weizmann Institute of Science, 1980; Tel Aviv University, 1983; Haifa University, 1987
D.H.L. (hon.), Central Connecticut State University, 1985; Trinity College, 1998
Doctor (hon.), G.O.C. Universite, 1995

Served
US Navy to rank of lieutenant, 1946 - 53
Farmer, warehouseman, Plains, GA 1953 -77
Georgia Senate, 1963 - 67
Governor of Georgia, 1971 - 75
President of the United Statees, 1977 - 81
University Distiniguished Professor, Emory University, 1982 - .

Author
Why Not the Best?, 1975
A Government as Good as Its People, 1977
Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President, 1982
Negotiation: The Alternative to Hostility, 1984
The Blood of Abraham, 1985
(with Rosalynn Carter) Everything to Gain: Making the Most of the Rest of Your Life, 1987
An Outdoor Journal, 1988
Turning Point: A Candidate, a State, and a Nation Come of Age, 1992
Talking Peace: A Vision for the Next Generation, 1993
Always a Reckoning, 1994
The Little Baby Snoogle-Fleejer, 1995
Living Faith, 1996
Sources of Strength: Meditations on Scripture for a Living Faith, 1997
The Virtues of Aging, 1998
An Hour before Daylight: Memoir of a Rural Boyhood, 2001

Member
Member, Sumter County (GA) School Board, 1955 - 62, chair, 1960 - 62
Member, Americus and Sumter County Hospital Authority, 1956 - 70
Member, Sumter County Library Boar, 1961
President, Georgia Planning Association, 1968
District Governor, Lions Clubs Internation, 1968 - 69
Chair, congressional campaign committe, Democratic National Committe, 1973 - 73
Founder, The Carter Center, 1982
Board of Directors, Habitat for Humanity, 1984 - 87
Chair, board of trustees, The Carter Center, Inc., 1986 - .
Chair, Council of Presidents and Prime Ministers of the Americas, 1986 - .
Chair, Council of the Internation Negotiation Network, 1991 - .
Co-chair, Commission on Radio and Television Policy, 1991 - .
Chair, Internation Human Rights Council, 1994 - .

Recipient
Gold medal, International Institute for Human Rights, 1979
International Mediation medal, American Arbitration Association, 1979
Martin Luther King, Jr. Nonviolent Peace Prize, 1979
International Human Rights Award, Synagogue Council of America, 1979
Conservationist of the Year Award, 1979
Harry S. Truman Public Service Award, 1981
Ansel Adams Conservation Award, Wilderness Society, 1982
Distiniguished Service Award, Southern Baptist Convention, 1982
Human Rights Award, Internation League for Human Rights, 1983
World Methodist Peace Award, 1985
Albert Schweitzer Prize for Humanitarianism, 1987
Edwin C. Whitehead Award, National Center for Health Education, 1989
Jefferson Award, American Institute of Public Service, 1990
Philadelphia Liberty Medal, 1990
Spirit of America Award, National Council for the Social Studies, 1990
Physicians for Social Responsibility Award, 1991
Aristotle Prize, Alexander S. Onassis Foundation, 1991
W. Averell Harriman Democracy Award, National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, 1992
Spark M. Matsunaga Medal of Peace, US Institute of Peace, 1993
Humanitarian Award, CARE International, 1993
Conservationist of the Year Medal, National Wildlife Federation, 1993
Rotary Award for World Understanding, 1994
J. William Fulbright Prize for International Understanding, 1994
National Civil Rights Museum Freedom Award, 1994
UNESCO Félix Houphouët-Boigny Peace Prize, 1994
Great Cross of the Order of Vasco Nunéz de Balboa, 1995
Bishop John T. Walker Distiniguished Humanitarian Award, Africare, 1996
Humanitarian of the Year, GQ Awards, 1996
Kiwanis International Humanitarian Award, 1996
Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development, 1997
Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Awards for Humanitarian Contributions to the Health of Humankind, National Foundation for Infectious Diseases, 1997
United Nations Human Rights Award, 1998
The Hoover Medal, 1998
International Child Survival Award, UNICEF Atlanta, 1999
Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1999
William Penn Mott, Jr., Park Leadership Award, National parks Conservation Association, 2000

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