A one-term former governor and peanut farmer from Georgia, Jimmy Carter was hardly the front-runner heading into the 1976 presidential election. He tied for 12 th in early polling among a crowded ...

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, but ...

Jimmy Carter impressed Sheboygan during 1976 campaign visit. 'I understand the consciousness of this country,' he said. Former Press reporter Dawn Jax Belleau recalls her car-ride interview with ...

Almost half a century ago, Jimmy Carter carried the battleground state of Wisconsin by 1.7 points. That has a pretty familiar ring today, when tight elections are the absolute norm in this state.

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 ...

May 7, 1976: Jimmy Carter stopped in Baltimore while campaigning for the Democratic presidential primary. Former Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter wades through a crowd of two thousand Marylanders, ...

A lmost half a century ago, Jimmy Carter carried the battleground state of Wisconsin by 1.7 points. That has a pretty familiar ring today, when tight elections are the absolute norm in this state.

Jimmy Carter, a steel-willed Southern governor who was elected president in 1976, died at his home in Plains, Georgia, on Dec. 29, according to his son James E. Carter III, known as Chip.

Jimmy Carter was the right presidential candidate for his time in 1976 — a smiling, homespun, anti-Washington outsider ...