Tributes pour in for Jimmy Carter as funeral set for January 9
Flags flew at half-staff across the United States on Monday as tributes poured in globally for Jimmy Carter, the longest-lived US president, who died at 100. The Georgia native, known for his dedication to human rights and humanitarian causes, will be honored with public observances in Georgia and Washington ahead of his January 9 state funeral.
Flags flew at half-staff across the United States on Monday as global tributes poured in for the life and legacy of Jimmy Carter -- the longest-lived US president, who died aged 100.
The Georgia native, whose unlikely political ascent carried him from picking peanuts on the family farm to the Oval Office, was remembered in glowing eulogies as an ardent defender of human rights and champion of the downtrodden.
He will be honored with public observances in his southern home state and in Washington in the coming days.
The first president to reach triple digits, Carter had been in hospice care in his home town of Plains since February 2023.
The Carter Center, his post-presidential humanitarian and pro-democracy organization, announced Sunday he had died "peacefully" at home "surrounded by his family."
In Georgia on Saturday, Carter will be conveyed by motorcade through Plains to the farm where he grew up and then on to the state capitol in Atlanta, the military said in a statement.
The father of four lost in a landslide to Ronald Reagan in 1980.
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