Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has died at 100 years old.
He died Sunday afternoon in Plains, Georgia.
Carter became the 39th president in 1976, when he beat the Republican candidate Gerald Ford. Richard Nixon had resigned from the presidency after the Watergate scandal.
However, Carter lost his bid for re-election in 1980 after just one term, losing to Republican Ronald Reagan.
But Carter’s career didn’t end there.
He did humanitarian work across the globe, landing him the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 for his human rights work.
On Oct. 1, he became the first former president to reach 100 years of age.
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