In 1986, the World Health Assembly called for the eradication of Guinea worm. At the start of the Carter Center-led program in 1986, the disease was endemic in 20 African and Asian countries, with approximately 3.

Carter’s state funeral is a six-day series of events allowing Georgians and the nation to pay their respects to the 39th U.S. president.

Jason Carter was funny and sincere when giving the eulogy at his grandfather's funeral on Thursday. Check out the speech and some of his best quotes.

Jimmy Carter has a total number of four children with Rosalynn Carter, the youngest being their only daughter, Amy Carter. Here's how old she is now.

Carter, at 100 the nation’s longest living president, died Dec. 29 at his home in Plains. The scene this week in Washington, at the National Cathedral Thursday and as he was lying in state for three days at the Capitol, was unlike anything the country had seen in years.

Jimmy Carter was celebrated Thursday for his personal humility and public service before, during and after his presidency in a funeral at Washington National Cathedral featuring the kind of pageantry the 39th U.

Jimmy Carter, a U.S. president who served only one term but was widely admired for his humanitarian work after leaving the White House, was remembered during his state funeral on Thursday as a man who put honesty and kindness above partisan politics.

Amy Carter, the only daughter of 39th president of the United States Jimmy Carter, will be back in the spotlight today for her father's national funeral at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., after years of leading a largely private life. But, her college years in New England were anything but private.

Former President Jimmy Carter, the nation's 39th chief executive, returned to Washington this week in a final procession that fused his

These events will all take place around the weekend as the nation says goodbye to the late president during a national day of mourning.

Thursday concluded six days of national rites that began in Plains, where Carter, a former Naval officer, engineer and peanut farmer, was born in 1924, lived most of his life and died after 22 months in hospice care.