Jimmy Carter: Nobel Prize For Peace
Awarded for the Nobel Prize for Peace a life time working to promote working rights and democracy in 2002, and was the 39th president of the United States from the years of 1977 through out 1981, Jimmy Carter was born on October 1, 1924, in Plains Georgia. His father, James Earl Carter, was a peanut farmer and businessman who owned his own area of land as well as a warehouse and store; and his mother Lillian Gordy, was a registered nurse, where back in 1920s Ms. Gordy counsel black women on health care issues. Jimmy Carter in his early life studied Engineering at Georgia Southwestern Junior College before entering the Naval ROTC program to continue his studies in engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology and received a Bachelor of
Science degree form the United states Naval Academy in 1946; and afterwards Jimmy Carter graduated on working in nuclear physics at Union College (A&E, 2013).
While Jimmy Carter was in the Navy, he was assigned to work on submarines and live the militia life, which made him to move around in his early marriage. Carter and his wife Rosalynn Smith moved out to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, where filled up the position of an electronic officer on the USS Pomfret. Jimmy Carter after serving his services as a navel officer and death of his father in 1953, Carter soon returned to his hometown Plains, he became involved in the community affairs, he then became a chairman of the county school board and became the first president of the Georgia Planning Association. In 1962 he joined state politics and many years after on January 12, 1971 Carter was elected the 76th Governor of Georgia (Freidel & Sidey, 2006).
Jimmy Carter announced his candidacy of the Democratic presidential nomination on December 12, 1974, where he won his party’s nomination in the Democratic National Convention on the first ballot in 1976, and the he was elected president on November 2, 1976 (Hochman, 2013).
A&E. (2013). Bio. true story. Retrieved from http://biography.com
Freidel, F., & Sidey, H. (2006). James carter. Retrieved from http://www.whitehouese.gov
Hochman, S. (2013, September 25). Jimmy carter - 39th president of the United States and founder of the carter center. Retrieved from http://www.cartercenter.org
Science degree form the United states Naval Academy in 1946; and afterwards Jimmy Carter graduated on working in nuclear physics at Union College (A&E, 2013).
While Jimmy Carter was in the Navy, he was assigned to work on submarines and live the militia life, which made him to move around in his early marriage. Carter and his wife Rosalynn Smith moved out to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, where filled up the position of an electronic officer on the USS Pomfret. Jimmy Carter after serving his services as a navel officer and death of his father in 1953, Carter soon returned to his hometown Plains, he became involved in the community affairs, he then became a chairman of the county school board and became the first president of the Georgia Planning Association. In 1962 he joined state politics and many years after on January 12, 1971 Carter was elected the 76th Governor of Georgia (Freidel & Sidey, 2006).
Jimmy Carter announced his candidacy of the Democratic presidential nomination on December 12, 1974, where he won his party’s nomination in the Democratic National Convention on the first ballot in 1976, and the he was elected president on November 2, 1976 (Hochman, 2013).
A&E. (2013). Bio. true story. Retrieved from http://biography.com
Freidel, F., & Sidey, H. (2006). James carter. Retrieved from http://www.whitehouese.gov
Hochman, S. (2013, September 25). Jimmy carter - 39th president of the United States and founder of the carter center. Retrieved from http://www.cartercenter.org