Nation mourns the 39th U.S. president after his death at 100

Written by on January 9, 2025

From the moment his grandfather woke up in the morning to the moment he laid his head at night, his life was a testament to the goodness of God, said Jason Carter, Jimmy Carter’s eldest grandson, as he took the lectern to deliver a eulogy to his late “Papa.”

Jimmy Carter, known to most Americans as the 39th President, was to Jason not unlike thousands of other grandparents across the South, he said. Carter was for the most part, just a regular American, who Jason said would often answer the door to his home in Plains . . .



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