After the death of his father in 1953, [M]Carter[/M] left his naval career and returned home to Georgia, where he [M]assumed control of his family's peanut-growing business.[/M]
James Earl Carter Jr., aka Jimmy (Plains, October 1, 1924) is an American politician, 39th president of the United States of America from 1977 to 1981.
Peanut producer, he was a member of the Trilateral Commission. In 2002 he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Following the death of George H. W. Bush on November 30, 2018, he became the oldest former president still alive.
From 1971 to 1975 he was Governor of Georgia.
He then won the Democratic nomination for the 1976 presidential election, where as an outsider he defeated the incumbent Republican president, Gerald Ford.
On his second day in office, Carter pardoned all evaders on the draft in the Vietnam War. He established two new government cabinet-level departments, the Department of Energy and the Department of Education. He established a national energy policy that included conservation, price control and new technologies.