Posted on 10/01/23
| News Source: FOX News
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter turned 99 Sunday.
Carter, the 39th president of the United States, is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and served in the submarine service.
After his military service, Carter — who served one term as president between 1977 and 1981 — took over his family's peanut farm before entering politics.
Carter served as a Georgia state senator and the Peach State's governor before narrowly defeating Republican incumbent President Gerald Ford for the presidency in 1976.
Rep. Austin Scott, R-Ga., the dean of the Georgia delegation in Congress, wished the former president a happy birthday in a statement to Fox News Digital.
"Happy birthday to President Jimmy Carter, a proud farmer, a devoted Christian, an accomplished Naval Academy graduate and a legendary Georgian," Scott said.
As president, Carter created the Department of Education, negotiated the 1978 amity agreement between Egypt and Israel and completed the negotiation of the SALT II nuclear limitation treaty with the Soviet Union.
Carter also oversaw the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis that lasted 444 days until his successor, President Ronald Reagan, took over as president Jan. 20, 1981.