Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States, has lived long enough to overlap with 17 other commanders-in-chief.
The 39th president of the United States gets to celebrate one of his own Tuesday when he turns 100 years old.Born in Plains, Georgia, on Oct. 1, 1924, Carter announced his plans to run for the presidency 50 years ago in December. He went on to win the 1976 election, besting Gerald Ford in Electoral College votes 297-241.
Feeling out of the loop? We'll catch you up on the Chicago news you need to know. Sign up for the weeklyA month after resigning as chief justice in February 1930, Taft died at the age of 72. He intersected with Carter for the first five-plus years of the future president's life.Amazingly, Carter's life did not cross over with the 28th and 29th presidents of the United States.Wilson's successor, Warren G. Harding, died on Aug. 2, 1923.
He was elected as the 31st president of the United States when Carter was just 4 years old. Nonetheless, the two presidents did share more than four decades together.Roosevelt's four-term presidency remains an anomaly in U.S. history, putting him in position to shape the modern Democratic Party — the same party Carter would come to inherit three-plus decades later.
Eisenhower, known for planning and supervising two of the most consequential military campaigns of World War II , served the top post in the nation from 1953 to 1961. He was most notably removed from office on Aug. 9, 1974 — ending his second term early to become the only U.S. president to resign from the Whiter House, as a result of the Watergate scandal.Nixon's successor had the rare distinction for modern-day presidents of taking over the country in the middle of the summer versus the beginning of the calendar year.
The 40th U.S. president took over after Carter's one-term presidency in 1981, leading the country through the decade before being succeeded by his vice president in the 1988 election.Born the same year as Jimmy Carter, the 41st president of the United States also got to hold the title of oldest-living president for less than a year.He died less than a year later on Nov. 30, 2018.After consecutive Republican presidents, Clinton won the Oval Office back in the 1992 election.
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