![Former President Jimmy Carter, now 98, entered home hospice care in Plains, GA, according to a statement from the Carter Center on Saturday. 2010 caption: Jimmy Carter and wife Rosalynn toured a seven-block stretch of Jefferson Street in East Baltimore, between Chester Street and Milton Avenue, where Habitat for Humanity is rebuilding ten rowhouses, and then the Carters spent over an hour working inside 2416 Jefferson Street, the future home of Tymeerah (CQ) Butts. A total of 86 homes, in honor of Pres. Carter's 86th birthday, are being rehabilitated by volunteers this week, including ten in Baltimore, ten in Annapolis, and others in Washington, D.C., Birmingham, AL, and Minneapolis and St. Paul, MN. (Amy Davis/Staff)](https://i0.wp.com/www.baltimoresun.com/wp-content/uploads/migration/2023/02/23/U5X2IL74DNHKPBBHXSSEH3ERWI.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&ssl=1)
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Jimmy Carter and wife Rosalynn toured a seven-block stretch of Jefferson Street in East Baltimore, between Chester Street and Milton Avenue, where Habitat for Humanity is rebuilding ten rowhouses, and then the Carters spent over an hour working inside 2416 Jefferson Street, the future home of Tymeerah Butts. A total of 86 homes, in honor of Pres. Carter’s 86th birthday, are being rehabilitated by volunteers this week, including ten in Baltimore, ten in Annapolis, and others in Washington, D.C., Birmingham, AL, and Minneapolis and St. Paul, MN. (Amy Davis/Staff)
Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter
Amy Davis/Baltimore Sun Former President Jimmy Carter blows away sawdust as he cuts a piece of wood with assistance from his wife Rosalynn as they labored with other Habitat for Humanity volunteers inside a home on the 2400 block of Jefferson Street in East Baltimore. (Amy Davis/Staff).
![Naval Academy June Week 1978 - President Jimmy Carter speaking at Naval Academy Graduation. Baltimore Sun Staff File Photo by Walter M. McCardell.](https://i0.wp.com/www.baltimoresun.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/tBS-WB-USNA-N_168901407.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&ssl=1)
![Naval Academy June Week 1978 - President Jimmy Carter and first lady Rosalynn Carter at Naval Academy Graduation. Baltimore Sun Staff File Photo by Walter M. McCardell.](https://i0.wp.com/www.baltimoresun.com/wp-content/uploads/migration/2023/02/17/3AS2ZROKS5GHTOQ7XY5VVRDT5E.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&ssl=1)
![BALTIMORE, MD--NOV. 20, 1997--Former President Jimmy Carter was interviewed at the Harbor Court Hotel about his new book, "Sources of Strength." Photo by Algerina Perna/staff B.](https://i0.wp.com/www.baltimoresun.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/tbs-CARTER-B-PERNA_209721263.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&ssl=1)
![BALTIMORE, MD--NOV. 20, 1997--Former President Jimmy Carter was interviewed at the Harbor Court Hotel about his new book, "Sources of Strength." Photo by Algerina Perna/staff A.](https://i0.wp.com/www.baltimoresun.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/tbs-CARTER-A-PERNA_209721261.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&ssl=1)
![Former President Jimmy Carter shakes the hand of nine-month-old Warren Pekarek, held by his father Army Capt. David Pekarek of Germantown, Md., during a book signing at Borders Book Store at White Flint Mall, Tuesday night, Jan. 17, 1995 in Bethesda, Md. Women in center is unidentified. (AP Photo/Mark Wilson)](https://i0.wp.com/www.baltimoresun.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/TBS-JIMMY-CARTERBALTIMORE-SUN_199458009.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&ssl=1)
![NAVAL ACADEMY JUNE WEEK 1978 - President Jimmy Carter speaks at Naval Academy Graduation. (Pat Carter/File photo)](https://i0.wp.com/www.baltimoresun.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/TBS-JIMMY-CARTER_780064.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&ssl=1)
![Rosalynn Carter, Senator Charles Mathias, President Jimmy Carter and Admiral Kinnard McKee, Superintendant of the U.S. Naval Academy](https://i0.wp.com/www.baltimoresun.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/GIOVGO3BMFFGPPLKTZ6WEQV24U.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&ssl=1)
Baltimore Sun photo by J. Pat Carter
Rosalynn Carter, Senator Charles Mathias, President Jimmy Carter and Admiral Kinnard McKee, Superintendant of the U.S. Naval Academy
![NAVAL ACADEMY JUNE WEEK 1978: President Jimmy Carter and acting Maryland governor Blair Lee III.](https://i0.wp.com/www.baltimoresun.com/wp-content/uploads/migration/2023/02/17/D2YF7OVPEJFG5KPUPNPH3CGTBU.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&ssl=1)
Carter / Check with Baltimore Sun Photo
NAVAL ACADEMY JUNE WEEK 1978: President Jimmy Carter and acting Maryland governor Blair Lee III.
![WHEATON, MD--6/28/04--Former President Jimmy Carter walks out of funeral services for Mattie Stepanek, 13, who died last week of a rare form of muscular dystrophy. President Carter gave the eulogy at the funeral, which took place at St. Catherine Laboure church in Wheaton, Md.Monday, June 28, 2004. The Baltimore Sun/Nanine Hartzenbuschdigital image # 107](https://i0.wp.com/www.baltimoresun.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/tBS-TO-STEPANEK-I-HARTZENBUSCH_173324831.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&ssl=1)
![WHEATON, MD--6/28/04--Former President Jimmy Carter embraces Jeni Stepanek, mother of Mattie Stepanek, 13, who died last week of a rare form of muscular dystrophy. They were attending the funeral of Mattie Stepanek, which took place at St. Catherine Laboure church in Wheaton, Md.Monday, June 28, 2004. The Baltimore Sun/Nanine Hartzenbuschdigital image # 35](https://i0.wp.com/www.baltimoresun.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/tbs-TETOSTEPANEK29P1_167150831.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&ssl=1)
![President Jimmy Carter, Tip O'Neil and Bowie Kuhn attend the seventh game of the World Series at Memorial Stadium between the Baltimore Orioles and the Pittsburgh Pirates in Oct., 1979.](https://i0.wp.com/www.baltimoresun.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/TBS-JIMMY-CARTER-GAME.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&ssl=1)
![Jimmy Carter visited Maryland and spoke in May of 1976.](https://i0.wp.com/www.baltimoresun.com/wp-content/uploads/migration/2023/02/23/I52SW3MBVJGMDKVB435TQY7UP4.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&ssl=1)
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Jimmy Carter visited Maryland and spoke in May of 1976.
![Former Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter, left, says a political hello to former Senator Joseph D. Tydings during a stop at Christ Church Harbor Apartments. Mr. Carter is doing some extra campaigning for the May 18, 1976 presidential primary.](https://i0.wp.com/www.baltimoresun.com/wp-content/uploads/migration/2023/02/20/TP2CECHBH5D2LMVQRRDBS47R34.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&ssl=1)
Walter M. McCardell / Baltimore Sun file photo
Former Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter, left, says a political hello to former Senator Joseph D. Tydings during a stop at Christ Church Harbor Apartments. Mr. Carter is doing some extra campaigning for the May 18, 1976 presidential primary.
![Jimmy Carter campaigns for President in Baltimore in August, 1975.](https://i0.wp.com/www.baltimoresun.com/wp-content/uploads/migration/2023/02/23/DHO4LKCSBNBR5BG6CCWPUMXET4.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&ssl=1)
Richard Childress / Baltimore Sun file photo
Jimmy Carter campaigns for President in Baltimore in August, 1975.
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Lieutenant James Earl Carter Jr., USN, 39th American President. President James Earl “Jimmy” Carter graduated from the Naval Academy in 1946 with distinction, after which he was assigned to USS Wyoming (E-AG 17) as an ensign.