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• James Earl “Jimmy” Carter Jr. was born on October 1, 1924, in Plains, Georgia at the Wise Sanitarium.
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He graduated Plains High School, as the star basketball player. He also was very smart and loved to read. In this picture, he is on the top row second to the left.
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He attended Georgia Southwestern College, but not for long.
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He was admitted to the United States Naval Academy and became well known in the Navy.
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Rosalynn was Jimmy's little sister's best friend. She said that while he was in the army every day she would look up at the picture of Jimmy and thought he was so handsome. She knew she had to marry him.
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John William "Jack" Carter was born on July 3, 1947.
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They had four children, John William "Jack"(born 1947), James Earl "Chip" III (born 1950), Donnel Jeffrey "Jeff" (born 1952), and Amy Lynn (born 1967).
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James Earl "Chip" Carter III was born on October, 8 1950. In this picture, he is the one directly above Jimmy Carter.
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Donnel Jeffrey "Jeff" Carter was born on November 27, 1952. He is the one in the dark redish brown suit on.
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Carter left the Navy because his father found out he had cancer and was planned to die very soon.
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He was elected as the Georgia Senate from the fourteenth district of Georgia
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Carter was reelected in 1964, to serve a second two-year term.
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Amy Lynn Carter was born on October 19, 1967.
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Carter was sworn in as the 76th Governor of Georgia on January 12, 1971,
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Carter recieved 297 electoral votes to Ford's 240.
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This children's book The Little Baby Snoogle-Fleejer was written by Jimmy, Rosalynn, and Amy Carter, and was released on November 21, 1995.
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In 2002, President Carter received the Nobel Peace Prize. He is the far right.
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On July 18, 2007, Carter joined Nelson Mandela in Johannesburg, South Africa, to announce his participation in The Elders, a group of independent global leaders who work together on peace and human rights issues.
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Jimmy's grandson Jason was elected to the Georgia State Senate in 2010. Following in his Grandfather's footsteps.
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They celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary in July 2011, making them the second-longest wed Presidential couple after George and Barbara Bush.
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Jimmy Carter is still a Preacher at Maranatha, in Plains Georgia.
