Which president was a peanut farmer from Plains, Georgia?
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The answer is Jimmy Carter.
James Earl Carter Jr. grew up on a farm near Plains, Georgia. He graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy and served in the Navy’s nuclear submarine program before returning home to run the family peanut business when his father died.
Carter served as governor of Georgia and was elected president in 1976. After leaving office, he founded the Carter Center, volunteered for decades with Habitat for Humanity and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002.
A lifelong Baptist, he taught Sunday school at Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains for many years into his nineties. He died in December 2024 at age 100, the longest-lived president in American history.
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100
Jimmy Carter’s age when he died, the oldest of any president.
Sunday school
Carter taught it in Plains for decades.
Annapolis
Carter graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy.
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