ROME (ITALPRESS) – Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has died at the age of 100. The Washington Post reports.
Carter was the 39th president of the U.S., from 1977 to 1981.
In 1982 he established the Carter Center, a foundation for human rights and democracy promotion, a work for which he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002.
James Earl Carter Jr, known as Jimmy, was born in Plains, Georgia, on October 1, 1924.
He served as governor of Georgia from 1971 to 1975, then won the Democratic nomination for the 1976 presidential election, where as an outsider he defeated incumbent Republican President Gerald Ford.
On his second day in office, Carter pardoned all draft dodgers from the Vietnam War.
In foreign policy, Carter promoted the Camp David Accords, the Panama Canal Treaties and the second Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT II). On the economic front, he faced persistent stagflation, or a combination of high inflation, high unemployment and slow growth. The end of his presidential term was marked by the Iran hostage crisis of 1979-1981, the 1979 energy crisis, the Three Mile Island nuclear accident, the civil war in El Salvador, and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
In 1980 he was reappointed as a presidential candidate ahead of the general election, imposing himself in the Democratic primary over Senator Ted Kennedy, but in the election he was defeated by Republican candidate Ronald Reagan.
Following the death of George H.W. Bush on November 30, 2018, Carter was the oldest living former president.
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