FORMER President Jimmy Carter suffered a black eye and needed 14 stitches after falling at his Georgia home. The former president, who turned 95 last week, was pictured at an event the same day with his left eye swollen and bruised and with a white bandage above it. The 39th president fell at his home […]
FORMER President Jimmy Carter suffered a black eye and needed 14 stitches after falling at his Georgia home.
The former president, who turned 95 last week, was pictured at an event the same day with his left eye swollen and bruised and with a white bandage above it.
The 39th president fell at his home in Plains, Georgia, on Sunday but that evening appeared in Nashville.
He was with his wife Rosalynn, 92, to talk to volunteers and supporters of the Habitat for Humanity building project.
Carter told the crowd that he had to go to hospital and get 14 stitches “but I had a number one priority and that was to come to Nashville and build houses”.
A statement issued by the Carter Center said said “he feels fine” and that he had been eager to attend the event.
Carter became the oldest surviving former President when he surpassed George H.W. Bush this spring.
He has had some trouble walking after a hip replacement in May, but regularly teaches Sunday School.
In recent years, he has been treated for metastatic melanoma that had spread from his liver to his brain.
After undergoing four months of immunotherapy in 2015 at the age of 91, he revealed that a brain scan showed he longer had signs of cancer.
The former President lives a relatively modest life in his old two bedroom house in his Georgia hometown.
He has shunned wealth and lives a comfortable life with his wife with income from his 33 books and the $210,700 annual pension all former presidents receive.
Carter has remained active in public life during his post-presidency, and in 2002 he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his work in co-founding the Carter Center.
Jimmy Carter was president from 1977 to 1981 having previously served as a Georgia State Senator from 1963 to 1967 and as Governor of Georgia from 1971 to 1975.
He was raised in a wealthy family of peanut farmers in the southern town of Plains, and graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1946 with a Bachelor of Science degree.
He went on to join the US Navy where he served on the submarines.
Following his father’s death, he returned home to take over the family peanut business.
As he went on to expand the business, Carter was motivated to oppose the political climate of racial segregation and support the growing civil rights movement.
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