Jimmy Carter

Carter, Jimmy (1924- ), 39th president of the United States (1977-1981), the first president from the Deep South since Andrew Jackson, and an outsider to traditional party politics.

Carter was born James Earl Carter, Jr. in Plains, Georgia, on October 1, 1924. In 1927 his family moved to the tiny settlement of Archery, just outside Plains, where he lived until he was 17 years old. He graduated from high school in 1941, then spent a year at Georgia Southwestern College and another at Georgia Institute of Technology.

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