Jimmy Carter is a man of many milestones — and the list keeps growing.
Late last week, the former president and Nobel Peace Prize-winning humanitarian marked another year as the longest lived ex-commander in chief, a record he has held since March 2019.
Having begun hospice care in February 2023, he celebrated his 99th birthday in October, surprising even his loved ones, grandson Jason Carter has said.
“It’s a true blessing for all of us to have had this much time with him,” Jason Carter told ABC News in the fall.
“I think his time in the private sector and the work that he did at The Carter Center, really spending his life among the most marginalized and poorest people in the world and believing in their power to change their own lives and in the power of human rights for them and democracy for them, will be the biggest part of his legacy,” the younger Carter, a former state senator and gubernatorial candidate, told ABC News.
Jimmy Carter’s year in hospice was also unexpected, his grandson has said.
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