Liam Saranich | New editor
Former President Jimmy Carter has now accomplished something has no other president has done in History, he has turned 100 hundred years old.
Carter, who served in the White House a long time ago, hit the milestone this past Tuesday in his home in Plains Georgia, where he has been receiving hospice care for the past 19 months.
The proud Democrat, who has been growing increasingly weaker in the recent months, has told relatives that he wants to hang on until Oct. 15th, when early voting begins in Georgia, so he can cast his vote for the 2024 election.
“I’m only trying to make it to vote for Kamala Harris,” Carter said, his grandson Jason Carter told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
A former peanut farmer and Navy veteran, Carter has lived nearly six years longer than another former President, George H.W. Bush, a Republican who was 94 years old he passed away on Nov. 30th, 2018.
Carter marked his 100th birthday 10 days after his life and legacy was celebrated with a star-studded concert at the Fox theater in Atlanta that featured performances of “Love shack” by Georgia’s own B-52's and covers of some of the best-known songs by The Allman Brothers, a Southern rock band that raised money for Carter’s successful presidential campaign in 1976.
The involvement of the nation's most popular bands during Carter’s campaign earned the former presidents the nickname “the rock ‘n’ roll president.”
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