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Jimmy Carter

1924 - 2024

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James Earl Carter Jr. (October 1, 1924 – December 29, 2024) was an American politician and humanitarian who served as the 39th president of the United States from 1977 to 1981. A member of the Democratic Party, Carter served as the 76th governor of Georgia from 1971 to 1975 and in the Georgia State Senate from 1963 to 1967. He was the longest-lived president in U.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jimmy Carter has received more than 191,711,948 page views. His biography is available in 153 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 140 in 2019). Jimmy Carter is the 12th most popular politician (up from 17th in 2019), the 5th most popular biography from United States (down from 4th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular American Politician.

Jimmy Carter is most famous for being the 39th president of the United States. He was elected in 1976 and served until 1980. He was a peanut farmer from Georgia, and was the first president to be born in a hospital.

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  • 153

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  • 19.75

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  • 3.23

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Jimmy Carter ranks 12 out of 19,576. Before him are Louis XIV of France, Suleiman the Magnificent, Joseph Stalin, Thomas Jefferson, Saladin, and Vladimir Lenin. After him are Augustus, Richard Nixon, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Cleopatra, David, and Henry Kissinger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Jimmy Carter ranks 1. After him are Marlon Brando, George H. W. Bush, Charles Aznavour, Marcello Mastroianni, Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, Kim Dae-jung, Robert Mugabe, Eli Cohen, Süleyman Demirel, Sarah Vaughan, and Jean-François Lyotard. Among people deceased in 2024, Jimmy Carter ranks 1. After him are Alain Delon, Franz Beckenbauer, Mário Zagallo, Maggie Smith, Daniel Kahneman, Donald Sutherland, Alberto Fujimori, Fethullah Gülen, Peter Higgs, Paul Auster, and Anouk Aimée.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jimmy Carter ranks 5 out of 20,380. Before him are Donald Trump (1946), Thomas Jefferson (1743), Thomas Edison (1847), and Muhammad Ali (1942). After him are Michael Jackson (1958), Richard Nixon (1913), Edgar Allan Poe (1809), Sylvester Stallone (1946), Steve Jobs (1955), Andrew Jackson (1767), and Marilyn Monroe (1926).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Jimmy Carter ranks 3. Before him are Donald Trump (1946), and Thomas Jefferson (1743). After him are Richard Nixon (1913), Andrew Jackson (1767), Abraham Lincoln (1809), Hillary Clinton (1947), Andrew Johnson (1808), Martin Van Buren (1782), Ulysses S. Grant (1822), James K. Polk (1795), and Joe Biden (1942).

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