President James Carter Jr.1

M, #10641, b. 1 October 1924
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Father*James Earl Carter1 b. 1894, d. 1953
Mother*Lillian (Bessie) Gordy1 b. 1898, d. 1983
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Names and Titles

Nickname: Jimmy Carter.1
Titled: 39th President of the United States (James Carter) on 20 January 1977.
President James Carter Jr. was born on 1 October 1924 in Plains, Georgia.1 He was the son of James Earl Carter and Lillian (Bessie) Gordy.1 President James Carter Jr. married Rosalynn Smith on 7 July 1946 in Plains, Georgia.1
Won the 1976 election over president Gerald Ford and Eugene J. McCarthy by a popular vote of 41,426,405 to 39,147,402 and 749,400, and an electoral vote of 297 to 240 and 0 (one republican elector voted for former California govenor and later president Ronald W. Reagan). Walter Mondale was his vice-president. Lost the 1980 election to Ronald Reagan.1 President James Carter Jr. became President of the United States on 20 January 1977 replacing President Gerald Rudolph Ford. President James Carter Jr. was over Vice President Walter F. Mondale as Vice President of the United States on 20 January 1977.
President James Carter Jr. was replaced as President of the United States by President Ronald Wilson Reagan on 20 January 1981.

4 Children of President James Carter Jr. and Rosalynn Smith
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Last Edited2 Aug 2020

Citations

  1. [S231] Presidents.GED online http://www3.dcs.hull.ac.uk/public/genealogy/presidents/…, Brian Tompsett (e-mail address), downloaded December 2003.