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He was born in Plains, Georgia, he was the first president to be born in a hospital
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He attended plains elementary and high school throughout his childhood from 1930-1941
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He went to Georgia Southwestern College, then transferred to Georgia Institute of Technology before he was accepted into the United States Naval Academy
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He became a naval officer and served on the Seawolf submarine.
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He was married to Rosalynn Smith of Plains, GA
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His first son John William (Jack) Carter was born
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His second son James Earl (Chip) Carter was born
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He worked on designing some of the first nuclear submarines in 1951 and got to command the seawolf
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He studied nuclear physics at Union College to work on designing nuclear submarines
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His third son Donnel Jeffery (Jeff) Carter was born
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He resigned from the navy after his father died in 1953 and Jimmy had to take over the family peanut farm
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He was a senator for 4 years
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His First Daughter and Fourth Child, Amy Lynn Carter was born
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He was elected governor of Georgia and served for 4 years
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He announced he would seek the Democratic nomination and run for president
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His book was titled Why Not The Best and was released on his 51st birthday
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His second book I'll Never Lie to You was published
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He was chosen as the presidential candidate by the democratic convention
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He was elected president on November 2nd, 1977
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He pardoned the Vietnam draft evaders
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The Camp David accords were a peace treaty between Israel and Egypt
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The gas price skyrocketed when the price of oil went up in the U.S.
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The odd-even rationing was a response to the gasoline crisis
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The crisis started when college students took 52 hostages in the U.S embassy
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He announced he would be running again for a second term against Ronald Reagen
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He boycotted the 1980 Moscow Summer Olympics to protest the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
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The economy was in recession after large inflation and a policy adopted by the federal reserve
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In 1980 when he was going for re-election, he was defeated 489-49 by Ronald Reagen
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Reagen was inaugurated after beating Carter in the 1980 election, therefore ending Carter's presidency
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Carter started working for habitat for humanity and building houses for the less fortunate
