Jimmy Carter becomes first US President to live to 100, Live NOW from FOX
Jimmy Carter is celebrating his 100th birthday on Tuesday, the first time an American president has lived a full century and the latest milestone in a life that took the son of a Depressionera farmer to the White House and across the world as a Nobel Peace Prizewinning humanitarian and advocate for democracy. Living the last 19 months in home hospice care in Plains, the Georgia Democrat and 39th president has continued to defy expectations, just as he did through a remarkable rise from his family peanut farming and warehouse business to the world stage. He served one presidential term from 1977 to 1981 and then worked more than four decades leading The Carter Center, which he and his wife Rosalynn cofounded in 1982 to wage peace, fight disease, and build hope. The former president was born Oct. 1, 1924 in Plains, where he has lived more than 80 of his 100 years. He is expected to mark his birthday in the same onestory home he and Rosalynn built in the early 1960s before his first electio
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