page_title: Jimmy Carter
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Jimmy Carter / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: 120310-N-QL961-010 SAN DIEGO (March 10, 2012) Former President Jimmy Carter and Former first lady Rosalynn Carter receive applause during a lunch hosted aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Peleliu (LHA 5). Carter and his foundation's nearly 250 guests and flag officers, hosted by Vice Adm. Gerald Beaman, commander of U.S. 3rd Fleet, spent the day visiting with Sailors and Marines, seeing various areas of the ship and aircraft. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Palovich/Released) Join the conversation www.facebook.com/USNavy www.twitter.com/USNavy www.navylive.dodlive.mil
context_page_description: James Earl Carter Jr. is an American politician and philanthropist. He was the 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981. A member of the Democratic Party, he was a Georgia State Senator from 1963 to 1967 and the 76th Governor of Georgia from 1971 to 1975.
  Born and raised in Plains, Georgia, Carter graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1946 with a Bachelor of Science degree and joined the United States Navy. In 1953, Carter left his naval career and returned home to Georgia to take charge of the family's peanut-growing business. Carter was politically motivated to protest against racial segregation and support the growing civil rights movement. He became an activist within the Democratic Party. From 1963 to 1967, Carter was in the Georgia State Senate, and in 1970, he was elected as Governor of Georgia, beating former Governor Carl Sanders in the Democratic primary. Carter remained as governor until 1975.
  At first, he was seen as a dark-horse candidate since not many people knew him outside of Georgia at the start of the presidential campaign, Carter won the 1976 Democratic presidential nomination.
context_section_description: Carter and Rosalynn Smith were married on July 7, 1946 in the Plains Methodist Church, the church of Rosalynn's family. They have three sons, one daughter, eight grandsons, three granddaughters, and two great-grandsons. 
  Carter and his wife Rosalynn are well known for their work as volunteers with Habitat for Humanity.
  Carter's hobbies include painting, fly-fishing, woodworking, cycling, tennis, and skiing. He also has an interest in poetry. 
  Carter was also a personal friend of Elvis Presley. Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, met him on June 30, 1973, before Presley was to perform onstage in Atlanta. The day after Presley's death, Carter issued a statement and explained how he had "changed the face of American popular culture".
  In 2000, Carter ended his membership with the Southern Baptist Convention, saying the group's ideas did not support with his Christian beliefs.
  Carter became the oldest to ever attend a presidential inauguration in 2017, at age 92, and the first to live to the 40th anniversary of their own. Two years later, on March 22, 2019, he became the nation's longest-lived president. On October 1, 2019, Carter became the first U.S. president to live to the age of 95.
caption: The Carters in March 2012
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