The day of mourning will be held on the same day as Mr. Carter’s funeral at Washington National Cathedral. President Biden will deliver a eulogy at the funeral, and a eulogy written by Gerald R. Ford, who died in 2006, will be read by his son Steven Ford.

Funeral services honoring former President Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States, take place Thursday. A Houston tribute planned Tuesday.

The nation will mourn the death of former President Jimmy Carter at a full state funeral in Washington, DC on Jan. 9 — a national day of mourning — before he’s laid to rest in his tiny hometown in Georgia beside his late wife Roselyn.

Carter made few contributions to NASA history, but a key decision helped shape 30 years of U.S. spaceflight. The longest-lived president in United States’ history, Jimmy Carter’s voice will continue to extend “into the cosmos” beyond his death at 100.

The 39th President of the United States, James Earl Carter, Jr., affectionately referred to as Jimmy Carter, has died. He passed away peacefully at his home in Plains, Georgia, with his family surrounding him. Carter was 100 years old.

P resident Jimmy Carter was a prescient president. Our first great champion of human rights in the White House, President Carter under