
Biography
James Earl Carter Jr. (October 1, 1924 – December 29, 2024) was an American politician and humanitarian who served as 39th president of the United States from 1977 to 1981. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the longest-lived president in U.S. history, and the first to reach 100 years of age.
Awards & recognition
- Grammy Award — Best Audio Book, Narration & Storytelling Recording · 2018
- Grammy Award — Best Audio Book, Narration & Storytelling Recording · 2015
- Honorary doctor at the Nanjing University · 2012
- Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown · 2011
- Catalonia International Prize · 2010
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- American Peace Award · 2009
- Grammy Award — Best Audio Book, Narration & Storytelling Recording · 2006
- Nobel Peace Prize · 2002
- Delta Prize — Global Understanding · 1999
- Presidential Medal of Freedom · 1999
- Hoover Medal · 1998
- United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights · 1998
- Four Freedoms Award – Freedom Medal · 1995
- American Library Association Honorary Membership · 1994
- Audubon Medal · 1994
- Félix Houphouët-Boigny Peace Prize · 1994
- J. William Fulbright Prize · 1994
- Philadelphia Liberty Medal · 1990
- Albert Schweitzer Prize — Humanitarianism · 1987
- honorary doctorate of Haifa University · 1987
- Ansel Adams Award · 1981
- International Mediation medal · 1979
- Financial Times Person of the Year · 1976
- American Campaign Medal
- China Service Medal
- Ellis Island Medal of Honor
- Grammy Awards
- honorary doctorate from the University of Alberta
- Hungarian Order of Merit
- Indira Gandhi Peace Prize
- National Defense Service Medal
- Order of Manuel Amador Guerrero
- Order of the Crown
- Order of the Liberator General San Martín
- Order of the Nile
- Order of Vasco Núñez de Balboa
- World War II Victory Medal
Filmography47 titles

The Presidents' Gatekeepers

Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story

Iran: The Hundred Year War

In Remembrance of Martin

13th

Race for the White House

Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia

RBG

Home Improvement

Hesburgh

Argo

The Times of Harvey Milk

History 101

Quebrando o Tabu

Miracle

President in Waiting

Vice

Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President

UFOs: Investigating the Unknown

Detroit Rock City

The Family

StarTalk

Grass

American Experience

60 Minutes

Jimmy Carter: Man from Plains

The Presidents

Free to Rock

Dennis Rodman's Big Bang in PyongYang

Countdown to Zero

The Daily Show

The Plot Against the President

How to Win the US Presidency

Reagan

The Words That Built America

Real Time with Bill Maher

This Is Pop

Third Eye Spies

The President's Book of Secrets

The Last Mogul

White House Revealed

Chuck Leavell: The Tree Man

My Father the Spy

The Fabulous Allan Carr

A Towering Task: The Story of the Peace Corps

Hubert H. Humphrey: The Art of the Possible

Fiasco