Before Jimmy Carter lived in the White House, he grew up in a humble home on his family's peanut farm in Archery, Georgia. The Carters were one of few landowning families in Archery, The New York ...

Cartoonists for the Chicago Tribune and Time magazine depicted Carter as Planters snack company’s dapper advertising character, Mr. Peanut. Others depicted Carter himself as a smiling peanut, along ...

From Plains to Atlanta, mourners in Georgia will pay their respects to Jimmy Carter. The service begins six days of funeral ...

Former President Jimmy Carter was long associated with peanuts from his humble childhood to his surprise rise to the White House and beyond. Before starting a career in politics, Carter managed ...

James Earl Carter, known as Jimmy throughout his life, was born on Oct. 1, 1924, in Plains, Georgia, the son of Earl and Lillian Carter. The family owned a peanut farm and he grew up in a home ...

Authentic. Peacemaker. Humanitarian. These are a few of the words students and professors at the University of Georgia used ...

Jimmy Carter will lie there in repose until Tuesday ... REUTERS Carter – a Georgia peanut farmer — became president of the United States during a time of gas shortages, Cold War tensions ...

A statue of former President Jimmy Carter stands on the state Capitol ... where he rose in power from a peanut farmer in rural south Georgia to a state senator to Georgia’s 76th governor and ...

ATLANTA — Former President Jimmy Carter died Sunday at 100 years ... "Growing up on a peanut farm in Central Georgia, President Carter learned the value of an honest day’s work at an early ...

Six days of funeral observances for former President Jimmy Carter began Saturday in Georgia, where he died on Dec. 29 at the ... and near where the couple operated the family peanut warehouses. The ...

Former President Jimmy Carter enters the stage on the first ... scandal that toppled President Richard Nixon, the onetime Georgia peanut farmer and Democratic governor became a global icon and ...

Carter was governor of Georgia from 1971 to 1975 ... former state and national leader, and proud peanut farmer from Plains.” Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter smiles during a book signing ...