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Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has died at his home in Plains, Georgia

The Georgia peanut farmer turned politician won Texas’ 26 electoral votes in 1976 but couldn’t repeat the feat four years later against Ronald Reagan.

The libertarian case for the late Jimmy Carter.

Former president helped build, renovate and repair more than 4,331 homes with Habitat for Humanity

Former peanut farmer served as Democrat president from 1977 to 1981

In December 1978, Jimmy Carter – who has died aged 100 – outlined his belief that American strategic decisions abroad should be shaped by an adherence to human rights. “Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy … because human rights is the soul of our sense of nationhood.”

President Jimmy Carter has died at the age of 100. Roll Call delves into its photo archives to remember his life.

Carter served just one-term in the White House, but became one of the most active former presidents in US history.

The former US president was an elder statesman on the world stage long after handing over to Ronald Reagan.

Serving as 39th US president from 1977 to 1981, Jimmy Carter sought to make government ‘competent and compassionate’.

Jimmy Carter served one term in the White House in the late 1970s, and went on to win the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002.