In the many stories written about President Jimmy Carter since his passing on Dec. 30 at age 100, most all of them mention his humble origins as a peanut farmer in Plains, Georgia. Carter ...

Paul Biebel was a Vermont farm boy who became a house builder. Jimmy Carter was a peanut farmer from Georgia who became president. Toward the end of an insufferably hot day outside Tijuana ...

In the spring of 1977, President Jimmy Carter, the former peanut farmer who had just taken office, was offered a big gift — if you can call it that — from the misty Northern California coast.

Jimmy Carter, after a successful term as governor of Georgia, returned to his home in Plains. Instead of resuming full-time peanut farming, he embarked on an unlikely campaign for the presidency of ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WJAR) — Narragansett Brewery is honoring former President Jimmy Carter with a commemorative beer. The brewery will be pouring "Peanut Farmer Porter" this weekend. Carter ...

I invited Vietnam Veteran Leonard Matlovich to join me in Florida to campaign for Pennsylvania’s governor, Milton Shapp, who ...

Authentic. Peacemaker. Humanitarian. These are a few of the words students and professors at the University of Georgia used to describe former President Jimmy Carter, who died on Dec. 29, ...

I turned 18. I had graduated high school in May, started my college career that August and, in November, I voted for the ...