Jimmy Carter: A Brief Biography

Jimmy Carter was born on October 1st, 1924. He was born and raised in Georgia where he also attended college. He was the 39th president. Carter was a Baptist and his parents where very religious. Carter has three sons: john, James and Donnel. Carter was married to Rossalynn. Carter attended Georgia southwestern college and later in the navy became a submariner. Also, carter attending Union College. After the death of his father he returned to take care of his mother. He became a community leader. Jimmy carter was elected president on November 2nd, 1976. He has foreign policy accomplishments such as Panama Canal treaties, treaty of peace between Egypt and Israel, camp Davids Accords, the SALT treaty with the Soviets and establishments of U.S.
diplomatic relations. He was awarded the 2002 noble peace prize for work to find peaceful solution with international conflict. Jimmy carter was very big on human rights. Jimmy had very high expectations in the white house. He wanted compassion and wanted to do what the people wanted, but it was hard to do so with a time period of continuing tension and high energy costs. He worked very hard to to battle economic unemployment and inflation. By the end of his presidency he led an increase to eight million new jobs. He wanted to increase human and social services, and by doing so he created Department of Education, Bolstered the social security system, and helped give a huge amount of Hispanics, Blacks and woman government jobs. In 1977 Jimmy carter created the Department of Energy which is still used today with Obama Administrations. President Carter also wrote autobiographies, Why not the Best, Keeping Faith and many more. In 1982 he became a professor at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia and founded the carter center. Some of Carters favorite recreational things were jogging, running and tennis. Jimmy Carter was diagnosed with melanoma in August 2015.