Admirers lined the streets of Carter's tiny Georgia hometown on Jan. 9 to get a last glimpse of the 39th U.S. president Bailey Richards is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE ...

Just a few years later on Dec. 4, 1982, Georgia native and UGA legend Herschel Walker won the Heisman Trophy. Walker spent ...

Former President Jimmy Carter is wading into the contentious Georgia governor's race with a personal appeal to Republican candidate Brian Kemp: Resign as secretary of state to avoid damaging public ...

ATLANTA — Georgia Tech is honoring the legacy of two of Georgia’s most influential leaders by renaming its School of Public Policy after former President Jimmy Carter and former First Lady Rosalynn ...

The Jimmy Carter National Historical Park received permission from the family to share the first public images of the former president and first lady's final resting place. Both gravestones look onto ...

ATLANTA — Georgia lawmakers are pushing for a Congressional Gold Medal to honor former President Jimmy Carter. U.S. Rep. Sanford Bishop introduced the resolution on Tuesday, and it has been ...

Georgia’s favorite son, beloved peanut farmer turned president, humanitarian and activist, Jimmy Carter is still making history. Carter won yet another Grammy Award, this time posthumously, for his ...

(The Center Square) – Jimmy Carter, the first former American president to live to 100, arrived back in his hometown of Plains, Georgia. Before the trip home, the former president was memorialized at ...

Carter saw a color-changing UFO in Georgia in 1969 As governor, he filed an official UFO report in 1973 Promise to reveal UFO files revoked over security concerns As a rising politician in Georgia, ...

ATLANTA — Georgia Tech celebrated the honorary naming of the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School of Public Policy on Wednesday, recognizing the former president and first lady's decades of commitment to ...

ATLANTA — Georgia Tech held a celebration earlier this week to name its School of Public Policy for Georgia’s favorite couple: former President and first lady Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter. Channel 2’s ...