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Jimmy Carter's tenure as the 39th president of the United States began with his inauguration on January 20, 1977, and ended on January 20, 1981. Carter, a Democrat from Georgia, took office following his narrow victory over Republican incumbent president Gerald Ford in the 1976 presidential election.
James Earl Carter Jr. (born October 1, 1924) is an American politician and humanitarian who served from 1977 to 1981 as the 39th president of the United States.A member of the Democratic Party, he served from 1963 to 1967 in the Georgia State Senate and from 1971 to 1975 as the 76th governor of Georgia.
U.S. President Jimmy Carter works on a speech for television in the Oval Office of the White House, February 2, 1977. Carter's post-presidency work Carter remained in the public eye after defeat.
April 30 – President Carter holds his forty-eighth news conference in Room 450 of the Old Executive Office Building. President Carter begins the conference with an address on congressional action over the standby gasoline rationing plan and answers questions from reporters on oil price decontrol, U.S. trade with the Soviet Union and China ...
And now the 39th president, who was in office from 1977-81, is the first former commander in chief to reach the century mark. When James Earl Carter Jr. was born in 1924 in the small farming town ...
November 20 – President Carter meets with President-elect Reagan at the Oval Office to discuss the transition of power between the presidents. [241] President Carter meets with Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) Helmut Schmidt for a discussion on a "wide range of political, security, and economic issues of mutual ...
Former President Jimmy Carter would attend President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration in January - were it not for health issues, a spokesperson for the Carter Center told USA TODAY. The 100-year ...
October 13 – President Carter holds his seventeenth news conference in Room 450 of the Old Executive Office Building. President Carter begins with an address on the ongoing energy crisis which he says is going to be the most important domestic issue during his tenure and answers questions from reporters on Senate action regarding energy ...