Jimmy Carter Research Paper

Jimmy Carter was born on October 1, 1924 in Plains, Georgia. His father was a hardworking peanut farmer who owned his own small plot of land and his mother was a nurse. At the age of ten he started working at his father’s store. Carter was a studious boy he avoided trouble. He enjoyed sitting with his father in the evenings, listening to baseball game and politics on the battery-operated radio. His parents were both deeply religious. They wanted him to attend Sunday school. So, he did, he attended the all-white Plains High School. Carter was the first person from his father’s side of the family to graduate from high school. He studied engineering at Georgia Southwestern Junior College before going to the Naval ROTC program where he continued

studying his engineering studies. He excel at academics, graduating in the top ten present of his class in 1946. Jimmy married a girl from his childhood in June 1946, her name was Rosalynn Smith. He soon joined the submarines so, he and his wife moved frequently. Carter was an electronics officer on the USS Pomfret.

He was assigned to work with Admiral Hyman Rickover developing a nuclear submarine program in Schenectady, New York. He had three sons: John William, James Earl Carter, and Donnel Jeffrey. His father passed away from cancer. He became active in community politics, winning a seat on the Sumter County Board of Education in 1955 and became its chairman. Demanded an end to racial discrimination. Carter was the only white man to refuse to join a segregation group called the “White Citizens’ Council”. When he was going to the front door of his house he had found a sign saying “Coons and Carter go together”. He ended up being the winner again Homer Moore in political office. He supported civil rights. He later considered running for the United States House of Representatives in 1966, but instead decided to run for governor but he lost because he ended up in third place. The person that beat Jimmy Carter was a guy who barricaded the doors of his restaurant and brandished an axe to ward off black customers. His name was Lester Maddox. Carter later on called for an end to segregation and promoted education for the blacks. He thought democrats needed a centrist figure to regain the presidency in

1976. He balanced the budget and also increased government assistance to the poor. Jimmy was the 39th president of the United States. He told the people he would never tell a lie and that he will never avoid a situation. He wanted change to be done.