Supporters and friends of the late President Carter will attend his funeral on Thursday at Washington, DC 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 and George W. Bush, Obama President-elect Trump will meet together for the first time since the funeral of former President George H.W. Bush in 2018.
Biden will deliver the eulogy.
Supporters and friends of President Carter will attend his funeral on Thursday at the National Cathedral in Washington, DC (Fox News)
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and Senate Majority Leader John Thune are also expected to attend, along with their Democratic counterparts, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Senate Minority Leader Chuck E. Schumer, D.N.Y.
Memorial services began on January 4, when a procession carried Carter's body through his hometown of Plains, Georgia, before heading to Atlanta and the Carter Presidential Center, where family and loved ones honored him.
Carter then lay in state at the Carter Center and then at the Capitol, where the public can pay their respects from Tuesday evening until early Thursday.
Jimmy Carter, the 39th President of the United States, has died at the age of 100
After the capital service, Carter's 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 a motorcade before he is buried on his property next to his late wife. Rosalyn, who died in 2023.
Carter, former Governor GeorgiaHe won the presidency in 1976. He was guided by his devout Christian faith and was determined to restore confidence in government after the Watergate and Vietnam scandals. But after four years in office, exposed to stubborn inflation of more than 10% and high unemployment, he was defeated for re-election by Ronald Reagan.
Jimmy Carter, Democratic presidential candidate, and his wife, Rosalynn, share a moment aboard his campaign plane. (Getty Images)
A military team carries former President Carter's coffin to the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum to rest in Atlanta, Saturday, January 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Brian Anderson, Paul)
While in the White House, Carter established full diplomatic relations With China He led negotiations on a nuclear arms control treaty with the Soviet Union. Locally, he led numerous conservation efforts, displaying the same love of nature as president as he had as a young farmer on the plains.
Carter lived out the remainder of his years in the modest farmhouse he built with his wife in 1961, building homes in cooperation with Habitat for Humanity and making forays into foreign policy when he felt they were needed, a trend that made his relationship with the Presidents Club tense. Sometimes.
He made his living largely by writing books — 32 in all — but he didn't cash in on seven-figure checks to give speeches or take any cushy board jobs as other presidents did.
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In his spare time, Carter, a deeply religious man who served as a deacon at Maranatha Plains Baptist Church, enjoyed fishing, running and carpentry.
Carter is survived by his four children, 11 grandchildren, and 13 great-grandchildren.
