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Supporters and friends of the late President Carter will attend his funeral Thursday at Washington, D.C National Cathedral
The service, scheduled to begin at 11 a.m., comes as President Biden declared Thursday a National Day of Mourning for the 38th president, who died Dec. 29 at age 100.
The so-called Presidents’ Club, the five living men who once occupied the White House, will gather for the event. President Biden and former Presidents Clinton, George W. Bush, obama and President-elect Trump will meet for the first time since the 2018 funeral of former President George HW Bush.
Biden will deliver the eulogy.
Supporters and friends of President Carter will attend his funeral Thursday at the National Cathedral in Washington, DC. (Fox News)
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-D., are also expected to attend, along with their Democratic counterparts, Minority Leader House Hakeem Jeffries, DN.Y., and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, DN.Y.
Tributes began on January 4, when a motorcade carried Carter’s body through his hometown of Plains, Georgia, before heading to Atlanta and the Carter Presidential Center, where family and loved ones tribute
Carter was laid to rest at the Carter Center and then at the Capitol, where the public could pay their respects from Tuesday evening until early Thursday.
JIMMY CARTER, 39TH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, DIED AT THE AGE OF 100
After the D.C. service, the Carter family will return to Plains for a private ceremony at Maranatha Baptist Church and another procession through Plains, where supporters are encouraged to line the streets for the motorcade before he is laid to rest in his property next to his late wife. Rosalynn, who died in 2023.
Carter, the former governor from Georgiawon the presidency in 1976. He was guided by his devout Christian faith and determined to restore faith in government after Watergate and Vietnam. But after four years in office and plagued by stubborn double-digit inflation and high unemployment, Ronald Reagan soundly defeated him for re-election.
Democratic presidential candidate Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, share a moment aboard their campaign plane. (Getty Images)
A military team carries former President Carter’s casket to the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum to lie in state in Atlanta on Saturday, Jan. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson, pool)
AN “EXTRAORDINARY MAN”: FORMER PRESIDENT CARTER IS IN STATE AHEAD OF STATE FUNERAL
While in the White House, Carter established full diplomatic relations with China and led the negotiation of a nuclear limitation treaty with the Soviet Union. Nationally, he led several conservation efforts, showing the same love of nature as president as he did as a young farmer on the Plains.
Carter lived out the rest of his years on the modest ranch he had built with his wife in 1961, building homes with Habitat for Humanity and returning to forays into foreign policy when he felt it was necessary, a trend that led to his relationship with the presidents club, sometimes, tense.
He made his living largely by writing books, 32 in all, but he didn’t get paid seven-figure checks to give speeches or hold any cushy jobs like other presidents.
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In his spare time, Carter, a deeply religious man who served as a deacon for Plains Maranatha Baptist Church, enjoyed fishing, running and woodworking.
Carter is survived by his four children, 11 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren.
