MON DEC 30 2024-theGBJournal| Jimmy Carter, the 39th US President, Navy veteran, Nobel Peace prize and Founder of the Carter Center, has died. He died on Sunday aged 100.
He was the longest living US President.
”The nation will miss President Jimmy Carter dearly, and it’s up to each of us to carry on his legacy,” the White House said shortly after his death was announced.
The Carter Center announced his death in Plains, Georgia and said he died surrounded by his family. A Democrat, he has been in home hospice care since February 2023 following series of short hospital stays.
”We shall miss President Carter’s strong leadership and profound humility as we carry on his work of waging peace, justice and human rights,” the Carter Center said.
Carter became President in January 1977 after he beat incumbent President Gerald Ford in the 1976 election and served for one-term.
His legacy is largely defined by the peace accords he brokered between Israel and Egypt in September 1978 at the Camp David, which brought much needed stability in the Middle East.
Carter subsequently won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 ”for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts,” the Nobel Prize Committee said in citation.
World leaders, politicians, Human Rights Watch, the U.K Royal family as well as former U.S presidents paid tribute to the only U.S. President to graduate from the U.S Naval Academy. The USS Jimmy Carter (SSN), a seawolf-class fast-attack submarine, carries his name.
”He was a committed public servant, and devoted his life to promoting peace and human rights. His dedication and humility served as an inspiration to many, and I remember with great with great fondness his visit to the United Kingdom in 1977,” said King Charles in a statement issued by the Royal Family.
”His significant role in achieving the peace agreement between Egypt and Israel will remain etched in the annals of history, and his humanitarian work exemplifies a lofty standard of love, peace, and brotherhood. His enduring legacy ensures that he will be remembered as one of the world’s most prominent leaders in service to humanity, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in a post X.
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