Former President and humanitarian Jimmy Carter dies at the age of 100. Jimmy Carter, who was a peanut farmer in Georgia, won his presidency in the wake of the Watergate scandal and Vietnam War. The longest-lived American president died on Sunday, more than a year after entering hospice care, at his home in the small town of Plains, Georgia, where he and his wife, Rosalynn, who died at 96 in November 2023, spent most of their lives, The Carter Center said.

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Former President Jimmy Carter addresses the opening session of the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston. (Nancy Stone/Chicago Tribune)

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President Jimmy Carter leaves Mayor Michael Bilandic’s Bridgeport home Nov. 3, 1978, in Chicago. (Gerald West/Chicago Tribune)