Long Live President Jimmy Carter

James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. (born October 1, 1924) is an American politician and author who served as the 39th president of the United States from 1977 to 1981.His father , James Earl Carter Sr. was a peanut farmer. His mother , Bessie Lillian Gordy was a registered nurse.

Before becoming the 39th president of the United States he studied engineering at Georgia Southwestern Junior College before joining the naval ROTC to continue his engineering studies at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Throughout his academic career he made excellent grades. He graduated in the top 10 percent of his class. Shortly after that he reconnected with a young girl he knew from his childhood and they married in June 1946. Her name was Eleanor Rosalynn Smith. 69 years later they are still married.

The Navy assigned Jimmy Carter to work on submarines, and in the early years of their marriage, the Carters, like many a military family, moved frequently.After a training program in Norfolk, Virginia, they moved out to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, where Carter was an electronics officer on the USS Pomfret. After subsequent postings to Groton, Connecticut; San Diego, California and Washington, D.C., in 1952 Carter was assigned to work with Admiral Hyman Rickover developing a nuclear submarine program in Schenectady, New York. The brilliant and notoriously demanding admiral made a profound impression on Carter. "I think, second to my own father, Rickover had more effect on my life than any other man," he later said.

During these years, the Carters also had three sons: John William (born 1947), James Earl Carter III (1950) and Donnel Jeffrey (1952). (The Carters later had a daughter, Amy, born in 1967). In July 1953,Carter's father passed away from pancreatic cancer and in the aftermath of his death, the farm and family business fell into disarray. Although Rosalynn initially objected, Carter moved his family back to rural Georgia so he could care for his mother and take over the family's affairs. In Georgia, Carter resuscitated the family farm and became active in community politics, winning a seat on the Sumter County Board of Education in 1955 and eventually becoming its chairman.

On August 12, 2015, Carter underwent surgery to remove a mass from his liver and discovered that he has cancer. In a statement, he said: "Recent liver surgery revealed that I have cancer that now is in other parts of my body. I will be rearranging my schedule as necessary so I can undergo treatment by physicians at Emory Healthcare."
A week later on August 20th, Carter held a news conference with his wife Roslyn by he side where he said doctors had found melanoma, "four very small spots," on his brain. He explained that he would begin radiation treatment that day and would have to alter his busy schedule “fairly dramatically.”
“I’m perfectly at ease with whatever comes,” the former president said, adding that he has led “a wonderful life.” “Now I feel it's in the hands of God.”

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