The 39th President of The United States of America has died. 

The Washington Post reports that the 39th US president, Jimmy Carter, passed away on Sunday at his home in Plains, Georgia.

James E. Carter III, the son of the former president, confirmed that his father passed away earlier today at the age of 100.

In a statement in February 2023, the Carter Center said the former president, after a series of hospital stays, would stop further medical treatment and spend his remaining time at home under hospice care. He had been treated in recent years for an aggressive form of melanoma skin cancer, with tumors that spread to his liver and brain.

He was predeceased by his wife, Rosalynn Carter, who died in November 2023 at 96. He is survived by his four children, 11 grandchildren, and 14 great-grandchildren.

Carter entered politics in the 1960s as a Democrat at the state level. By the 1970s, he had been elected governor of Georgia. He served as US president for one term, from 1977 to 1981.

WaPo noted, “When Mr. Carter left Washington in January 1981, he was widely regarded as a mediocre president, if not an outright failure,” adding, “The list of what had gone wrong during his presidency, not all of it his fault, was long. It was a time of economic distress, with a stagnant economy and stubbornly high unemployment and inflation.”