Tributes are pouring in for Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States, who died Sunday, Dec. 29 at 100. He served a single, tumultuous presidential term. But in the decades that followed, Carter advocated tirelessly for peace, democracy and international human rights and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002.
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The former president will also be honored with a National Day of Mourning on Jan. 9, the White House says, and will receive a state funeral before being laid to rest in his hometown of Plains, Ga. — buried next to his wife, Rosalynn, beside a willow tree.