Jimmy Carter: Nobel Prize For Peace

Awarded for the Nobel Prize for Peace a life time working to promote working rights and democracy in 2002, and was the 39th president of the United States from the years of 1977 through out 1981, Jimmy Carter was born on October 1, 1924, in Plains Georgia. His father, James Earl Carter, was a peanut farmer and businessman who owned his own area of land as well as a warehouse and store; and his mother Lillian Gordy, was a registered nurse, where back in 1920s Ms. Gordy counsel black women on health care issues. Jimmy Carter in his early life studied Engineering at Georgia Southwestern Junior College before entering the Naval ROTC program to continue his studies in engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology and received a Bachelor of