In an all-American sort of way, he was first elected to the local school board. Then Jimmy Carter became President of the ...

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter will be honored with the pageantry of a funeral in the nation’s capital and second service in his tiny Georgia hometown that launched a Depression-era farm boy to ...

Jimmy Carter grew up in Archery, Georgia with 20 other families – only two of which were white – according to Carter biographer Jonathan Alter. “In some ways it’s an epic American story,” says Alter.