Plains, Ga., joins a collection of other small towns known for their part in presidential history. That can provide a steady ...

Carter made Tri-State stop in 1980 election campaign The nation paid its respects on Thursday to Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States. Carter died at his home in Plains, Georgia on ...

Nanda Pethiyagoda While the USA is respectfully giving its 39th President a state funeral in Washington DC and a final internment in Plains, Georgia, President-elect Donald Trump is threateningly ...

When he showed up at the Chicago Tribune one day in early 1976, James Earl Carter, Jr., was announced by one of our young newsroom copy clerks as “that governor from Georgia who thinks he can run for ...

Carter served one term before losing re-election in 1980 to Ronald Reagan, his bid hobbled ... in the tiny Sumter County town of Plains in southwest Georgia, where he grew up on a peanut farm.

The motorcade for President Jimmy Carter’s funeral began in Americus, Ga., a town of about 15,000 near Carter’s hometown of Plains, Ga. As I watched the current and former Secret Service ...

PLAINS, Ga. (WRBL) — Think of Jimmy Carter’s life as a book. Appropriate, given he was a prolific writer. And yesterday was the last paragraph in the final chapter of a century-old story.