President Joe Biden, who was the first sitting senator to endorse Carter's 1976 presidential campaign, will deliver a eulogy.

The life and legacy of former President Jimmy Carter is being remembered Thursday with a national funeral service and a National Day of Mourning.

Washington gathered to pay tribute to Jimmy Carter on Thursday, bringing together political rivals in the wake of a rancorous election to honor a former president praised by both parties for his humility and decency.

President Joe Biden on Thursday eulogized the late former president Jimmy Carter as a man whose “deep Christian faith in God” had led him to lead an extraordinary and forward-looking life over the century he spent on the earth, one who “never let the tides of politics divert him from his mission to serve and shape the world .”

Donnel Jeffrey "Jeff" Carter (b. 1952) co-founded Computer Mapping Consultants, blending technology and business. He and his late wife, Annette, had three sons: Joshua, James, and Jeremy, who passed away in 2015 at the age of 28.

Jimmy Carter brought a brief moment of national unity to a divided America Thursday as five US presidents gathered for the solemn state funeral of the 39th commander-in-chief in Washington's National Cathedral.

There were times when Jimmy Carter annoyed his successors in the White House, Democrat and Republican. He never seemed to mind.

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 world stage.

President Joe Biden will deliver a eulogy and then Carter, who died at 100, will be buried on the grounds of his home in Georgia.

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

Former presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton, former vice president Mike Pence and Democrat Al Gore also attended the state funeral.

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