This is the first in a four-part series looking back at the year 2024 in Troup County. Jan. 2 Houston Group charged with ...
Jimmy Carter, the Georgia peanut farmer who became a U.S. president and a Nobel Prize-winning activist for peace and human ...
Jimmy Carter rose from a Georgia farm to become president of the United States and a Nobel Prize-winning peace and human rights activist. Carter became the nation's 39th president in 1977, defeating ...
Carter teaches Sunday school class at the Maranatha Baptist Church in his hometown in ... of a Habitat for Humanity home being built in LaGrange, Georgia, 2003 (Getty Images) At the beginning ...
James Earl Carter Jr. was born Oct. 1, 1924, in Plains, Georgia — the first U.S. president born ... congregation of 400 people at Maranatha Baptist Church on Nov. 3, 2019, according to the ...
On Sunday, Carter’s church, Maranatha Baptist Church held its first Sunday service since Carter died. MBC was founded in the late 1970s and held its first service on May 22, 1977, during the first ...