Former President Jimmy Carter is being honored in Alabama with a proclamation from Gov. Kay Ivey, who ordered flags lowered to half-staff for 30 days.
Alabama is marking the passing of former President Jimmy Carter with a proclamation from Gov. Kay Ivey, which orders flags lowered at the Capitol and across the state in his honor. Ivey’s order calls for flags to be lowered to half-staff for 30 days to mark Carter’s service to the nation. A native of Plains, Georgia, approximately 40 miles from the Alabama state line, Carter first served his country as a lieutenant in the United States Navy.
After his father died, he left military service to return home to take over the family peanut farm. In 1962, Carter entered politics running successfully for the Georgia State Senate. In 1970, he won the Georgia Governor’s race. In December 1974, Jimmy Carter jumped into the Democratic primary for President among a field of more than a dozen candidates. His long-shot candidacy was not only victorious in the primary but ultimately in the 1976 general election. He served one term in office as President during which time our country faced many challenges from an energy shortage to U.S. diplomats being taken hostage in Iran. After leaving the White House in 1981, Carter forged the longest post presidency of any American chief executive. He was well known for his advocacy of international human rights through the Carter Center, and his hands-on assistance to disadvantaged persons through his years of volunteering for Habitat for Humanity. Jimmy Carter not only lived the longest of any former U.S. President, but his life also brought greater dignity to the presidency
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