Jimmy Carter death - latest news: Former president’s funeral set for Jan. 9 as Biden declares national day of mourning
President-elect Donald Trump and President Joe Biden lead tributes to Carter after he died at his home in Plains, Georgia, aged 100
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Your support makes all the difference.Jimmy Carter’s funeral will be held on January 9 at the Washington National Cathedral, where President Joe Biden will give a eulogy, funeral organizers told The New York Times.
Carter, a Nobel Peace Prize winner and peanut farm operator who became the 39th president of the United States, died at his home in Plains, Georgia, on Sunday at 100 years old, the Carter Foundation confirmed.
The funeral is one of eight days of ceremonies and honors, which will include Carter’s body being flown to Washington, D.C. where he will lie in state at the Capitol Rotunda.
Biden has also marked January 9 as a national day of mourning and has called on U.S. citizens to assemble “in their respective places of worship” to pay homage to the former president.
Heartfelt tributes continue pouring in from world leaders celebrating Carter’s life and humanitarian achievements, including President-elect Donald Trump, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Pope Francis.
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He lived on a property in Plains, Georgia — where he died Sunday at age 100 — that was worth a fraction of the average U.S. house price, he shopped at budget stores, and he did not fly privately.
The least expensive former president for the U.S. government, Carter and his wife Rosalynn — who died in 2023 — lived a surprisingly average life after his term ended in 1981.
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ICYMI: Trump, Biden and Obama pay tribute to ‘public servant’ Jimmy Carter after his death aged 100
Washington‘s political heavyweights paid tribute to former President Jimmy Carter after his death was announced on Sunday by his family.
The nation’s 39th president was renowned for his commitment to public service in the years after his exit from political life and earned a strong reputation for helping America’s neediest families in his post-presidential years.
After news of his passing was reported by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, tributes began to swiftly pour in for the 100-year-old statesman.
John Bowden has collated the tributes below.
Lawmakers pay tribute to ‘public servant’ Jimmy Carter after his death aged 100
Joe Biden, Donald Trump, Barack Obama and George W Bush all publicly remembered the ‘humble public servant’ from Plains, Georgia
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The late former US president Jimmy Carter was a relative novice at international diplomacy when made his first visit to the UK just four months into his term in the White House in 1977 – which resulted in him earning the displeasure of the Queen Mother after being said to have given her a parting kiss on the lips.
It was the year of Queen Elizabeth’s Silver Jubilee, marking her 25th year on the throne, and world leaders attending a G7 summit were invited for a state banquet in Buckingham Palace where they were to meet the Queen and other members of the Royal Family.
Photographs showed Mr Carter and the Queen Mother being all smiles as the president escorted her by her white-gloved hand to their places in a formal group portrait with the G7 leaders before dinner. But the evening would end with a short moment which would spark debate among British tabloids and the American media for decades afterwards, with the president accused of a total ignorance of royal protocol.
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I realize that my physical strength and endurance are steadily declining, and I am having to learn how to conserve them, but I have found with relief and gratitude — even when facing the prospect of an early death from cancer in my liver and brain — that my faith as a Christian is still unwavering and sustaining.
Flags fly at half-staff near the Capitol
Former UK Prime Minster Gordon Brown laments loss of ‘friend’ jimmy Carter
The former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown has joined a chorus of political heavyweights in lamenting over the loss of Jimmy Carter.
“He is, and will be, mourned in every country and continent where civil liberties are valued and peace has proved elusive; revered as the leader who stood with all those who faced imprisonment, torture or persecution for defending democracy and human rights,” Brown wrote in an op-ed for The Guardian on Monday morning.
“Carter gave oppressed people hope. I was proud to learn from him and to count him and his wonderful wife, Rosalynn – who was also his closest adviser – as friends.”
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