Photos: Jimmy Carter, from the White House to building houses

(NEXSTAR) - Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States, died Sunday aft helium began receiving location hospice attraction successful February 2023. He was 100 years old.

Carter, the longest-living American president, had undergone a bid of abbreviated infirmary stays successful the months starring up to hospice care, The Carter Center antecedently confirmed. He had "decided to walk his remaining clip astatine location with his household and person hospice attraction alternatively of further aesculapian intervention.”

Ultimately, helium "died peacefully Sunday, Dec. 29, astatine his location successful Plains, Georgia, surrounded by his family," the Carter Center said.

Carter is preceded successful decease by his wife, erstwhile archetypal woman Rosalynn Carter, who died successful November 2023. They had celebrated their 77th wedding anniversary conscionable a fewer months earlier aft Rosalynn was diagnosed with dementia.

Photos: Jimmy Carter done the years

Carter, antecedently politician of Georgia, bushed then-President Gerald R. Ford for the presidency successful 1976. He served a azygous word earlier being defeated by Republican Ronald Reagan successful 1980.

But Carter didn't thrust disconnected into the sunset aft his landslide loss. Instead, helium went connected to walk decades connected planetary advocacy for democracy, nationalist health, and quality rights via The Carter Center.

The halfway was opened successful 1982 by Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, present 95. Carter received a Nobel Peace Prize successful 2002 for his enactment done the center.

Carter, who has lived astir of his beingness successful Plains, Georgia, traveled extensively into his 80s and aboriginal 90s, including yearly trips to physique homes with Habitat for Humanity and predominant trips overseas arsenic portion of The Carter Center's predetermination monitoring and its effort to eradicate the Guinea worm parasite successful processing countries. But the erstwhile president's wellness declined implicit his 10th decennary of life, particularly arsenic the coronavirus pandemic constricted his nationalist appearances, including astatine his beloved Maranatha Baptist Church wherever helium taught Sunday School lessons for decades earlier standing-room-only crowds of visitors.

In August 2015, Carter had a tiny cancerous wide removed from his liver. The pursuing year, Carter announced that helium needed nary further treatment, arsenic an experimental cause had eliminated immoderate motion of cancer.

Carter was calved Oct. 1, 1924, to a salient household successful agrarian southbound Georgia. He went connected to the U.S. Naval Academy during World War II and pursued a vocation arsenic a Cold War Naval serviceman earlier returning to Georgia with Rosalynn and their young household to instrumentality implicit the household peanut concern aft Earl Carter's decease successful the 1950s.

A mean Democrat, the younger Carter rapidly climbed from the section schoolhouse committee to the authorities Senate and past the Georgia governor's office. He began his White House bid arsenic an underdog with a wide smile, outspoken Baptist mores and argumentation plans reflecting his acquisition arsenic an engineer. He connected with galore Americans due to the fact that of his committedness not to deceive the American radical aft Nixon’s disgrace and U.S. decision successful southeast Asia.

“If I ever prevarication to you, if I ever marque a misleading statement, don’t ballot for me. I would not merit to beryllium your president,” Carter said often arsenic helium campaigned.

Carter said aft leaving bureau that helium had underestimated the value of dealing with Washington powerfulness brokers, including the media and lobbying forces anchored successful the nation's capital. But helium insisted his wide attack was dependable and that helium achieved his superior objectives — to “protect our nation’s information and interests peacefully” and “enhance quality rights present and abroad” — adjacent if helium fell spectacularly abbreviated of a 2nd term.

And years later, upon his crab diagnosis arsenic a nonagenarian, helium expressed restitution with his agelong life.

“I’m perfectly astatine easiness with immoderate comes,” helium said successful 2015. “I’ve had an exciting, adventurous and gratifying existence.”

The Associated Press contributed to this report.