Flags will remain at half-mast and half-staff most of the month for Jimmy Carter's death. Jan. 9 will be a national day of mourning for his funeral.

A national day of mourning will be observed on Thursday for Jimmy Carter, who died on Dec. 29 at 100 years old. In a proclamation after Mr. Carter’s death, President Biden called him “a man of character,

P resident Jimmy Carter was a prescient president. Our first great champion of human rights in the White House, President Carter under

The first events reflected Carter’s climb up the political ladder, from the tiny town of Plains, Georgia, to decades on the global stage as a humanitarian and advocate for democracy.

A motorcade Saturday with Carter's flag-draped casket began at the Phoebe Sumter Medical Center in Americus and passed through his hometown of Plains and family farm before going to Atlanta.