Jimmy Carter, 39th U.S. president and Nobel Peace Prize winner, dead at 100 [Video]

Jimmy Carter, the Georgia peanut farmer who was elected as the 39th U.S. president and later earned a Nobel Peace Prize as a global champion of human rights, has died. He was 100.

“Our founder, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, passed away this afternoon in Plains, Georgia,” The Carter Center said in a statement announcing his death on the social media platform X. It added that he died peacefully, surrounded by his family. 

A devout Christian who taught Sunday school at his local Baptist church for decades and whose faith-based politics were often championed as an antidote to the cynicism of the Watergate years, Carter unexpectedly ascended from the Georgia governor’s office to the presidency.

His 1977-81 …