JIMMY CARTER

JIMMY CARTER

Jimmy carter, the 39th president of the United States, was awarded the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, the only U.S., because for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development

Before he became President, Carter, a Democrat, served as a U.S. Naval officer, was a peanut farmer, served two terms as a Georgia State Senator and one as Governor of Georgia.

In 1973 he became the Democratic National Committee campaign chairman for the 1974 congressional elections. He announced his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination on December 12, 1974, and won his party's nomination at the 1976 Democratic National Convention on the first ballot. He was elected President on November 2. 1976.

He created two new cabinet-level departments: the Department of Energy and the Department of Education. He established a national energy policy too that included conservation, price control, and new technology. 

By 1980, He survived a primary challenge against Ted Kennedy for the Democratic Party nomination in the 1980 election, but lost the election to Ronald Reagan, the Republican candidate. 

Jimmy Carter served as President from January 20, 1977 to January 20, 1981.

The carrier he did before becoming president

Jimmy Carter was a gifted student from an early age who always had a fondness for reading. By the time he attended Plains High School, he was also a star in basketball. He was greatly influenced by one of his high school teachers.

After high school, he enrolled at Georgia Southwestern College, in Americans. Later, he applied to the United States Naval Academy and, after taking additional mathematics courses at Georgia Tech, he was admitted in 1943. Carter graduated 59th out of 820 midshipmen at the Naval Academy with a Bachelor of Science degree with an unspecified major, as was the custom at the academy at that time.