01/09/2025

President Biden Delivers Eulogy Memorializing Carter during State Funeral

The former president died at the age of 100 on Dec. 29, 2024

Jimmy Carter, the 39^th U.S. President, was honored with the pageantry of a state funeral in the nation's capital. He will later be honored with a second service and burial in his tiny Georgia hometown that launched a Depression-era farm boy to the world stage.

President Joe Biden delivered the eulogy. Other speakers included Steve Ford, reading remarks written by his father, former President Gerald Ford, before his death; former Carter adviser Stu Eizenstat and Jason Carter, one of Jimmy Carter's grandsons.

The former president will be buried in his hometown of Plains, Georgia, following a private funeral service at Maranatha Baptist Church, where the former president taught Sunday school.

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