Jimmy Carter Age, Affairs, Wife, Family, Biography, Facts & More
Some Lesser Known Facts About Jimmy Carter
- Does Jimmy Carter smoke?: No
- Does Jimmy Carter drink alcohol?: Not Known
- In 1976, Jimmy Carter became the 39th U.S. President, and at that time, he became the first U.S. President to be born in a hospital.
- He comes from an impoverished background as his father was a peanut farmer and mother was a registered nurse.
- At the age of 4, his family migrated to Archery (a rural town).
- In his leisure time, he loved sitting with his father in the evening and listen to baseball games or politics on the battery-operated radio.
- He was a bright student as he excelled in his studies and was among the top ten students in his class during his graduation time.
- In 1962, he won the election to Georgia State Senate.
- He ran for Governor for the first time in 1966, but lost to Lester Maddox.
- On January 12, 1971, he was inaugurated as Georgia’s 76th governor.
- He was elected as the President of the United States on November 2, 1976, by winning 297 electoral votes against Ford with 241.
- On January 20, 1977, the Inauguration ceremony of Jimmy Carter as 39th President of the United States took place.
- In 1978, just three days before his birthday, he blew out the candles on his birthday cake presented by the Democratic Nation Committee.
- Jimmy is the second oldest president alive after George H. W. Bush.
- In September 1991, Jimmy Carter gave a speech addressing ” The present role of United Nations in Changing the World” in New York City.
- He was honored with the Nobel Prize for Peace in 2002.
- He underwent a surgery on August 3, 2015, in which he got a small mass removed from his liver.
- Recently, Carter was admitted to a hospital in Winnipeg, Canada after suffering from dehydration while working outdoors for Humanity and was released the following day.
- Here’s a brief biography of Jimmy Carter’s life :