Her choice: “How Great Thou Art.” Jimmy Carter, a steel-willed Southern governor who was elected president in 1976, died at his home in Plains, Georgia, on Dec. 29, according to his son James E.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Tributes to former President Jimmy Carter were pouring in from his small hometown of Plains, Georgia, and ...

PLAINS, Ga. − From Dollar General to the local high school, Americans had words of admiration in Jimmy Carter's hometown for a local hero who became president and leader of the free world and ...

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That modest home is where Carter peacefully died on Sunday at the age of 100. At the 2020 census, Plains, which to many is only known for being the birthplace of the Carters, had a population of 573.

In October 2008, with the economy reeling from the onset of the Great Recession and oil prices ... Biden said that their “only answer is drill, drill, drill. Drill we must, but it will take ...