The Nobel Peace Prize 2002
Awarded on: 2002-10-11
"for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development"
James Earl Carter
Born: 1924-10-01 in Plains, GA, USA
Gender: male
Field: President of the United States from 1977 to 1981
Biography
James Earl Carter Jr. was an American politician and humanitarian who served as the 39th president of the United States from 1977 to 1981. A member of the Democratic Party, Carter served from 1971 to 1975 as the 76th governor of Georgia and from 1963 to 1967 in the Georgia State Senate. He was the longest-lived president in U.S. history and the first to reach the age of 100.