Former President Jimmy Carter was a father of four, grandfather to 12 and great-grandfather to 14 children when he died at age 100.

Jimmy Carter, the 39th U.S. President, will be honored Thursday with the pageantry of a state funeral in the nation’s capital, followed by a second service and burial in his tiny Georgia hometown that launched a Depression-era farm boy to the

For most of these last 100 years, Jimmy Carter was Plains and Plains, the town that nourished him and continued to call him back, was Jimmy Carter. The former president, whose funeral was Thursday, was born in Plains,