29 December 2024 , 21:32
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Former US President and Nobel Peace Price winner Jimmy Carter has died at the age of 100.
Mr Carter, the oldest living former US leader, became the 39th president of the country in 1976.
A former peanut farmer and a Democrat, Mr Carter won the presidency following the Watergate scandal and Vietnam War.
He died today, more than a year after starting hospice care at his home in the small town of Plains, Georgia, the AP reports citing the Carter Center.
Jimmy Carter addressing the nation during his presidency (Picture: Bettmann Archive)
It was in Plains where Mr Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, who died in November last year, spent most of their lives.
The Carter Center wrote on X (formerly Twitter): ‘Our founder, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, passed away this afternoon in Plains, Georgia.’
The former president became known as a campaigner for human rights which was recognised by the Nobel Peace Prize committee in 2002.
When awarding him with the coveted prize, they cited his ‘untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development.’