Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States, was long associated with peanuts — an enduring symbol of his humble beginnings and a testament to the values of hard work that he embraced ...
James Earl “Jimmy” Carter Jr, a naval officer, Nobel Peace Prize winner and peanut farm operator who became governor of Georgia and later ... championed environmentalism at a time when it was not yet ...
1, 1924, in Plains, Georgia, the son of Earl and Lillian Carter. The family owned a peanut farm and he grew up in a home without electricity or indoor plumbing. Carter graduated from the U.S ...
Long before becoming a peanut farmer or entering politics ... the Navy's new nuclear submarine program, it would later color his views as president of the United States, on everything from ...
Newly married and sworn as a Naval officer, Jimmy Carter left his tiny hometown in 1946 hoping to climb the ranks and see the world. Less than a decade later, the death of his father and namesake, a ...