Carter Administration - Early Life
Early Life
James Earl Carter, Jr., was born in the agricultural town of Plains, Georgia, on October 1, 1924. His father, James Earl Carter, Sr., was a farmer and businessman, his mother, Lillian Gordy Carter, a nurse. When Carter—who had three younger siblings—was four years old, his family moved to Archery, a rural community west of Plains, to run a peanut farm. Although the family was relatively well-off by rural Georgia standards, the family home was not equipped with electricity or running water. When he was not in school Carter helped out on the farm and sold boiled peanuts in Plains.
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