Former President Jimmy Carter celebrates his 90th birthday on Oct. 1, 2014. On Thursday, March 21, 2019, Carter became the longest-living former president in U.S. history. (Curtis Compton/The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Jimmy Carter is pictured at 6 months old with his mother, Lillian, in Plains, Georgia, in March 1925. (AP)
Jimmy Carter, center right, being sworn into the Georgia State Senate on Jan. 15, 1963. (AP)
Jimmy Carter takes the oath of office from Justice Robert H. Jordan. Photo taken Jan. 12, 1971. (AJC file)
The Girl Scouts celebrate their 60th birthday with Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter. Mrs. L. Powell Gahagan, president of the Girl Scout Council of Savannah, Georgia, where Girl Scouting started, wears a 1913 Girl Scout uniform. (AJC file)
Jimmy Carter and Walter Mondale, the Democratic ticket, wave to the jubilant crowd in Madison Square Garden during the Democratic National Convention. With them are their wives, Rosalynn and Joan. (AP)
President Gerald Ford emphasizes a point during his second debate with Jimmy Carter at San Francisco's Palace of Fine Arts Theater. (AP)
Atlanta Journal front page of Nov. 3, 1976. (AJC file)
President-elect Jimmy Carter reviews transition papers Nov. 10, 1976, at his cottage at Musgrove on St. Simons Island. (AJC file)
Rosalyn Carter watches as Jimmy Carter shakes hands with Justice Warren Burger at the Jan. 20, 1977, presidential inauguration. (AJC file)
Rep. Carl Albert speaks alongside Jimmy and Amy Carter at the 1977 presidential inauguration. M. L. King Sr. stands over their shoulders. (AJC file)
In this Jan. 24, 1977, black-and-white file photo, President Carter is interviewed in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on Jan. 24, 1977. (AP)
President Carter relaxes in a cardigan sweater in the library of the White House on Feb. 2, 1977, prior to his nationally televised 'Fireside Chat' to the nation. (AP)
President Jimmy Carter joins Dizzy Gillespie and drummer Max Roach in singing a version of Gillespie's tune 'Salt Peanuts' at the White House Jazz Concert on June 18, 1978, for the 25th anniversary of the Newport Jazz Festival. (AP)
President Jimmy Carter congratulates Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd after his performance on the fiddle at a Democratic National Committee gala on Sep. 2, 1979. (File)
Carter and aides in Oval Office on the eve of Ronald Reagan's inaguration, awaiting news of the hostages in Tehran. (File)
The president and first lady walk into the Maranatha Baptist Church, where they attended Sunday school, in Plains, Georgia, in 1980. (AJC file)
Hamilton Jordan (from left), Zbigniew Brezinski and President Jimmy Carter walking away from a patio following at meeting at the White House in 1980. (Cox Washington Bureau)
Carter and aides in Oval Office on the eve of Ronald Reagan's inaguration, awaiting news of the hostages in Tehran. (File)
Back in Atlanta: The Carters arrive at Hartsfield Airport after a 16-day tour of China and Japan in 1981. (AJC file)
Former U.S. presidents Gerald Ford, left, and Jimmy Carter share a private moment during a symposium on 'New Weapons Technologies and Soviet-American Relations' at the University of Michigan in this Nov. 14, 1984, photo. (AP / Detroit Free Press)
Former President Jimmy Carter shares a smile with his grandson, James, just before the ground-breaking for a Japanese garden at the $26 million Carter Presidential Library now under construction east of downtown Atlanta. (AJC file)
Former presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter listen as Guillermo O'Donnell talks about democracy in South America in 1986. (AJC file)
Jimmy Carter gives a thumbs-up sign as he and Rosalynn give a tour of the Carter Center to Ronald and Nancy Reagan. (AJC file)
Former President Jimmy Carter poses for a portrait. (Rick Diamond / The Carter Center)
President Jimmy Carter still teaches occasional Sunday school classes at Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains. (CURTIS COMPTON / CCOMPTON@AJC.COM)
Former President Jimmy Carter waves to fans after he found a seat before the home opener against the Milwaukee Brewers at Turner Field in Atlanta on April 13, 2012. (Hyosub Shin)
This AJC file photo shows Jimmy Carter at his surprise 90th birthday party in Plains. (CURTIS COMPTON / CCOMPTON@AJC.COM)
FILE- In this Sept. 12, 2018, file photo former President Jimmy Carter answers questions from students during his annual town hall with Emory University in Atlanta. (Curtis Compton/The Atlanta Journal Constitution/AP)
