Praise was widespread for Carter’s human rights activism, conflict-resolution work and kindness during his presidency and the following decades.

Experts say mourning someone you didn't personally know, like President Jimmy Carter, is a phenomenon called collective or public grief.

Jimmy Carter, the peanut farmer who won the presidency in the wake of the Watergate scandal and Vietnam War, endured humbling defeat after one tumultuous term and then redefined life after the White House as a global humanitarian,