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Jimmy Carter promised a government “as competent, as compassionate, as good” as the American people. His achievements were notable, but in an era of rising energy costs, mounting inﬂation, and increasing world crises, he found it difficult to meet Americans’ high expectations.

James Earl Carter Jr. was born October 1, 1924, in Plains, Georgia. Peanut farming, talk of politics, and the Baptist faith were mainstays of his upbringing. Upon graduation in 1946 from the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, Carter married Rosalynn Smith. The Carters had three sons, John William (Jack), James Earl III (Chip), Donnel Jeffrey (Jeff), and a daughter, Amy Lynn.

After seven years’ service as a naval officer, Carter returned to Plains. In 1962 he was elected a state senator and eight years later he was elected governor of Georgia. Among the new young southern governors, he attracted attention by emphasizing efficiency in government and the removal of racial discrimination.

When Carter announced his candidacy for president in December 1974, he was virtually unknown, but in the wake of nati

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Jimmy Carter: Life Before the Presidency

James Earl Carter's ancestors had lived in America since the 1630s. They were residents of Georgia since just after the Revolution. “Jimmy” Carter’s parents, Earl and Lillian Carter, owned a peanut farm and warehouse and a store outside the small town of Plains, Georgia. Earl was bright, hardworking, and a very good businessman. "Miz" Lillian had been trained as a nurse but set aside her career when she became pregnant soon after marriage. She named the first of her four children James Earl, for his father.

Jimmy's mother, well read and curious about the world around her, crossed the then-strict lines of segregation in 1920s Georgia by counseling poor African American women on matters of health care. She sometimes invited black guests to enter her home by the front door, not the back, and hosted them in the living room, not the kitchen—subtle but serious deviations from existing social norms. She did these things when Earl was not at home in an evident concession to his stricter compliance to the rules of race relations in the South.

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Jimmy Carter: Life in Brief

Jimmy Carter's one-term presidency is remembered for the events that overwhelmed it—inflation, energy crisis, war in Afghanistan, and hostages in Iran. After one term in office, voters rejected Jimmy Carter's honest but gloomy outlook in favor of Ronald Reagan's telegenic optimism. Since then, there has been a growing recognition that Carter confronted challenging problems in the late 1970s with steadiness, sacrifice, and idealism. Along with his predecessor Gerald Ford, Carter is now given credit for restoring respect and balance to our constitutional system after the turmoil of the Vietnam War and Watergate, and after the excesses of the "imperial presidencies" of Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon.

Carter was raised on his family's farm in Archer, just outside the small town of Plains, Georgia. The family home lacked electricity and indoor plumbing. Jimmy was named after his father, a successful businessman who grew peanuts and operated a small store. Carter's mother, "Miz" Lillian, was a nurse by training, and Jimmy was the first American preside