A one-term former governor and peanut farmer from Georgia ... party saying, “He can’t be the President; I don’t even know him!” according to Carter biographer Kai Bird. Yet when the ...
From Plains to Atlanta, mourners in Georgia will pay their respects to Jimmy Carter. The service begins six days of funeral ...
This story originally appeared on Georgia Recorder. Jimmy Carter would chart a new course for the state at the start of his four-year term serving as Georgia’s governor when he used his inauguration ...
In the early months of 1976, New Jersey's Democratic Party establishment did not roll out a welcome mat for Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn. But a 27-year-old Ruth Puglisi — now ...
Former President Jimmy Carter, who died on December 29 at the ... he lost in great part because he was sabotaged by his own Democratic Party. He was challenged by Ted Kennedy, of course, which ...
In his announcement speech for his presidential run, in 1974, Georgia Governor Jimmy ... Chip Carter, the second-born son, recalled that, against all odds, his father captured the Democratic ...
Jimmy Carter is known across the world, but that wasn’t the case when the former Georgia governor began his improbable campaign for the 1976 Democratic presidential nomination. Little known ...
Jimmy Carter, winner in Georgia's runoff primary in the Democratic Party to determine the party's candidate for the November election for governor, 1970. (AP Photo) Former State Sen. Jimmy Carter ...
MLK's daughter spoke to Newsweek about the different trajectories of two Georgia natives, and how they aligned in the fight ...
Mr. Carter witnessed a shift from what had been a solidly Democratic South to one that Republicans, supported by white voters and particularly evangelicals, came to dominate. By Richard Fausset On ...
A one-term former governor and peanut farmer from Georgia, Jimmy Carter was hardly the front ... I don’t even know him!” according to Carter biographer Kai Bird. Yet when the Democratic Party ...