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