Carter died on Dec. 29, 2024 in Plains, Georgia, just a few months after the Carter family celebrated his 100th birthday. He remains the only president from Georgia.

Carter officially became America’s oldest living ex-president on March 21, 2019, surpassing George H.W. Bush, who died in November 2018 at the age of 94 years and 171 days old. Prior to Bush, previous ...