Jimmy Carter

He married Eleanor Rosalynn Smith in 1946 and they have four children - three sons and one daughter.

Jimmy Carter was born in Georgia to a local public official. As a child, he used to work in the fields to make the ends meet for his family.

After attending public Schools in Plains, Georgia, he studied at the Georgia Institute of Technology before being inducted into the U.S. Naval Academy in 1943, from where he graduated in 1946. He was subsequently enlisted in the American Navy.

After he was made a junior officer with the Navy, he qualified for commanding a diesel-electric submarine and applied for the US Navy's fledgling nuclear submarine program run by the-then Captain Hyman G. Rickover, who had a great influence on him.

Later, he went on to study nuclear physics and was elected as a mechanical engineering officer on one of the first atomic submarines. However, following the death of his father, he was required to run the family business and was discharged from the Navy on October 9, 1953.

Thereafter, he returned to Georgia to help his family run their business and eventually expanded the peanut business, which stabilised his finances and eventually made him wealthy.

He started his political career by serving as a member of various local bodies, boards, schools, hospitals etc.

From 1961 to 1966, he represented the fourteenth district of Georgia in the state Senate of Georgia. In 1966, he decided not to seek re-election to the state Senate as he wanted to contest the gubernatorial election.

‘Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid’, published in 2006, is his chronicle on the talks between Menachem Begin of Israel and Anwar Sadat of Egypt that led to the Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty. The book was listed as a New York Times best seller.

‘Beyond the White House: Waging Peace, Fighting Disease, Building Hope’, published in 2007, is his memoir on his post-presidency term, which became one of the most-read books the same year and sold over thousands of copies in the first week of its release.