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James E. Carter,Jr.- Important Dates and Accomplishments!!!!!

By sgodsey

  • Georgia To The White House

    Jimmy Carter's father, James Earl Carter, is born in Arlington, Georgia. His family had emigrated to America from England in 1635, then settled in Georgia in 1780.

  • Lillian Gordy

    Jimmy Carter's mother, Lillian Gordy, is born in Richland, Georgia.

  • Lillian gets her job

    Lillian Gordy is accepted into the nursing program at the Wise Clinic in Plains, Georgia, where she meets Earl Carter.

  • Earl and Lillian marry.

  • Calvin

    Calvin Coolidge is elected President

  • president born

    James Earl Carter Jr. is born in Plains, Georgia, the first American president born in a hospital.

  • stock

    stock market crash

  • Franklin Delano Roosevelt

    becomes the Thirty-Second United States President

  • Securities and Exchange Commission is created

  • Social Security Act

  • World War II begins

  • Pearl Harbor is attacked

  • Carter graduates from High school

  • Attends Georgia Southwestern College

  • Attends Georgia Tech University

  • world war 2 ends

  • Carter graduates from the United States Naval Academy

  • Carter marries Rosalynn Smith

  • Son John William is born

  • Korean War begins

  • Carter's son James Earl Carter, III is born

  • Son Donnell Jeffrey is born

  • Dwight David Eisenhower

    becomes the Thirty-Fourth U.S. President

  • Carter's father James Earl Carter, Sr. dies of cancer

    Carter is honorably discharged from the U.S. Navy at his request upon his father's death

  • The Carter's move back to Plains, Georgia to take over the family peanut farm

  • Carter becomes State Senator of Georgia

  • Daughter Amy Lynn is born

  • Carter becomes the Governor of the state of Georgia

  • Carter formally announces his run for the United States Presidency

  • Carter publishes his autobiography "Why Not the Best"

  • Jimmy Carter wins the Presidential election to become the thirty-ninth President of the United States. Defeating Incumbent successor Gerald Ford