SACRAMENTO — Jimmy Carter was the right presidential candidate for his time in 1976 — a smiling, homespun, anti-Washington outsider promising truth and decency. He was a natural populist ...

Amid all the reminiscences this week about former President Jimmy Carter ... to secure the Democratic nomination in 1976. When the campaign began, Carter was the longest of long shots.

That could be Carter, too, couldn’t it? During the 1976 election cycle, former President Jimmy Carter cemented the playbook for Iowa Caucus success by meeting Iowans in small diners and coffee ...

When Jimmy Carter came to Sheboygan, Sheboygan Press reporter Dawn Jax Belleau got the story of a lifetime. In March 1976, Carter was working just about everywhere in Wisconsin to give his ...

Jimmy Carter's lifelong fight for equality was inspired by the women in his youth, according to his grandson Jason Carter. Jason opened up about his grandfather's female role models for 'Letters to ...

In 1976, National Geographic photographer Jodi Cobb took a detour into the town of Plains, Georgia—and found a town giddy with the success of its hometown son. Jimmy Carter, not yet president ...

In the presidential election of 1976, Jimmy Carter was riding high. Watergate was still fresh in voters’ minds, and the Democratic nominee led by as many as 33 points over Republican incumbent ...

Only six states in 1976 were decided by 20 points or more, compared to 19 in 2024. More: Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter built houses in Milwaukee and their Habitat for Humanity work in the city still ...

Did President Jimmy Carter have a connection to Southwest Florida? Did he have a connection to Southwest Florida? Yes, the former president was the first presidential candidate in the 1976 ...

Former President Jimmy Carter made some memorable visits to Baltimore while campaigning, as president and for his Habitat for Humanity work. May 7, 1976: Jimmy Carter addressed the crowd in ...