Peanut farmer to politician: Who was 39th president and Nobel Prize winner Jimmy Carter?
From peanut farmer to president of the United States, ITV News' Robert Moore looks back at the life of Jimmy Carter who has died at the age of 100
Jimmy Carter has died at the age of 100. It brings to an end an extraordinary life of public service - a presidency that was widely regarded as flawed; a post-presidency that was seen as inspirational.
He was one of America's most unlikely Presidents: A peanut farmer from Georgia, whose very obscurity was one of his greatest strengths.
For in scandal-weary America - in the aftermath of Watergate and the Nixon resignation - the honest and deeply religious Southerner promised a different type of politics.
He was America's 39th President, taking office in 1977.
His famous decision to abandon his cavalcade and walk to the White House was seen to symbolize a more accessible leader.
But amid an energy crisis and rising oil prices, the US economy took a succession of hits - leading to long lines at petrol stations and a very unAmerican sense of pessimism.
On foreign policy, there was an unexpected success - the Camp David Accords, that saw a breakthrough peace deal between Egypt and Israel - to this day perhaps America's most remarkable diplomatic achievement in the Middle East.
Then came the moment that sealed Carter's fate as a one-term President and turned him into a symbol of weakness.
The Iranian Revolution brought a hardline, clerical, anti-US regime to power...and in November 1979 the US Embassy in Teheran was stormed, and 66 US diplomats were taken hostage.
It was a humiliation for America...compounded by Jimmy Carter ordering a rescue mission that ended in disaster, and a crash in the Iranian desert that left US commandos dead.
It was no surprise that Ronald Reagan - promising better times - won in a landslide election in 1980...
But Jimmy Carter's best years were still ahead of him.
If his Presidency was deeply flawed, his legacy as a social activist gained him deep respect.
In 2002 he won the Nobel Peace Prize, for his tireless campaigning for the under-privileged.
His stamina was remarkable. He had liver cancer which spread to his brain, and still he recovered.
He became recently the longest living former president in American history.
Even in old age, Carter could be seen contributing to the one project closest to his heart: Building homes for the poor.
Even a fall would not stop him helping those less fortunate.
He continued to speak out, lambasting the presidency of Donald Trump, declaring, “You can decide whether you want to be generous, or to be stingy; to be a liar when it's to your benefit, or always tell the truth."
Faith was at the heart of Jimmy Carter‘s identity.
He was a farmer from Georgia, who became a president, and in his final, greatest act, a humanitarian who rehabilitated his reputation and in some of his final remarks declared, “I am ready for anything, looking forward to a new adventure."
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