Former president Jimmy Carter celebrates his 100th birthday

Jimmy Carter has accomplished something no other former U.S. president has — he notched a 100th birthday.

Jimmy Carter has accomplished something no other former U.S. president has — he notched a 100th birthday.

Carter, who served one term in the White House, hit the milestone Tuesday at his home in Plains, Georgia, where he has been receiving hospice care for the last 19 months.

The proud Democrat, who has grown increasingly weaker in recent months, has told relatives he wants to hang on until Oct. 15, when early voting begins in Georgia, so he can cast his ballot in the 2024 presidential election.

“I’m only trying to make it to vote for Kamala Harris,” Carter said, his grandson Jason Carter told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. 

A former peanut farmer and Navy veteran, Carter has lived nearly six years longer than another age-defying former president, George H.W. Bush, a Republican who was 94 and 171-days old when he died Nov. 30, 2018.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/jimmy-carter-turns-100-rcna172235

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