Former US President Jimmy Carter Dies At 100

US 39th President James Earl Carter passed away at the age of 100 at his home in Plains, Georgia.

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Former US President James Earl Carter passed away at the age of 100 on  Sunday (US local time) at his home in Plains, Georgia, ANI reported. He was the longest-serving US President.

In a statement from February 2023, the Carter Center revealed that after several hospitalisations, the former US President chose to discontinue further medical treatment and spend his remaining time at home under hospice care. In recent years, he had been battling an aggressive form of melanoma, with tumours that had spread to his liver and brain.

Jimmy Carter served as the 39th US President and first president from the Deep South since 1837 and the only Democrat elected president between Lyndon B Johnson and Bill Clinton's terms in the White House.

Jimmy Carter was a small-town peanut farmer, a US Navy veteran and the governor of Georgia from 1971 to 1975. 

Carter was honoured with the Nobel Peace Prize for "his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development," according to the Nobel Prize statement.

US President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden expressed their sorrow over the passing of former President Jimmy Carter, honoring him as an exceptional leader, statesman, and humanitarian.

In a statement released by the White House, they said, "With his compassion and moral clarity, he worked to eradicate disease, forge peace, advance civil rights and human rights, promote free and fair elections, house the homeless, and always advocate for the least among us. He saved, lifted, and changed the lives of people all across the globe"

"To the entire Carter family, we send our gratitude for sharing them with America and the world. To their staff - from the earliest days to the final ones - we have no doubt that you will continue to do the good works that carry on their legacy", the statement added, according to ANI.

(With ANI Inputs)