List of presidential biographies

Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States, died today at the age of 100. He was the oldest-ever former president of the United States.

It is also worth noting that he was married to Rosalynn Carter for an impressive 77 years.

George H.W. Bush was the second-oldest former president, passing at the age of 94 in 2018.

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Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan and John Adams take the next three spots (having lived to the ages of 93, 93, and 90, respectively).

Carter grew up in one of the toughest areas of the Deep South, without running water or electricity in a “assemble-it-yourself” kit home purchased from Sears.

But he was a bright student with a gritty determination and tenacious demeanor. He graduated from the US Naval Academy in 1947 and spent a half-dozen years in the Navy. Next he turned to the family business: peanut farming.

But between 1963 and 1975 he embedded himself in Georgia politics as a state senato