James Earl Carter Jr. was an American politician and humanitarian who served as the 39th president of the United States from 1977 to 1981. A member of the Democratic Party,Carter served as the 76th governor of Georgia from 1971 to 1975 and in the Georgia State Senate from 1963 to 1967. He was the longest-lived president in U.S. history and the first to reach the age of 100.
Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 2,1976. The Democratic ticket of Jimmy Carter,the former governor of Georgia,and his runningmate Walter Mondale,the senior senator from Minnesota,narrowly defeated the Republican ticket of Gerald Ford,the incumbent president,and his runningmate Bob Dole,the junior senator from Kansas. This was the first presidential election since 1932 in which the incumbent was defeated,as well as the only Democratic victory of the six presidential elections between 1968 and 1988.
Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 4,1980. Republican nominee,former California governor Ronald Reagan,defeated incumbent Democratic President Jimmy Carter in a landslide victory. This was the second consecutive election in which an incumbent president was defeated,although Gerald Ford assumed the presidency after President Richard Nixon resigned and was not elected,as well as the first election since 1888 that saw the defeat of an incumbent Democratic president.
The West Wing is an American political drama television series created by Aaron Sorkin that was originally broadcast on NBC from September 22,1999,to May 14,2006. The series is set primarily in the West Wing of the White House,where the Oval Office and offices of presidential senior personnel are located,during the fictional two-term Democratic administration of President Josiah Bartlet.
Andrew Jackson Young Jr. is an American politician,diplomat,and activist. Beginning his career as a pastor,Young was an early leader in the civil rights movement,serving as executive director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and a close confidant to Martin Luther King Jr. Young later became active in politics,serving as a U.S. Congressman from Georgia,United States Ambassador to the United Nations in the Carter Administration,and 55th Mayor of Atlanta. He was the first African American elected to Congress from Georgia since Reconstruction,as well as one of the first two African Americans elected to Congress from the former Confederacy since Reconstruction,alongside Barbara Jordan of Texas. Since leaving office,Young has founded or served in many organizations working on issues of public policy and political lobbying.
Eleanor Rosalynn Carter was an American activist and humanitarian who served as the first lady of the United States from 1977 to 1981,as the wife of President Jimmy Carter. Throughout her decades of public service,she was a leading advocate for women's rights and mental health.
Lester Garfield Maddox Sr. was an American politician who served as the 75th governor of Georgia from 1967 to 1971. A populist Southern Democrat,Maddox came to prominence as a staunch segregationist,when he refused to serve black customers in his Atlanta restaurant,the Pickrick,in violation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. As he was ineligible to run for a second consecutive gubernatorial term,he sought and won election as lieutenant governor,serving alongside his successor as governor,Jimmy Carter.
George Corley Wallace Jr. was the 45th governor of Alabama,serving from 1963 to 1967,again from 1971 to 1979,and finally from 1983 to 1987. He is remembered for his staunch segregationist and populist views;however,in the late 1970s,Wallace moderated his views on race,renouncing his support for segregation. During Wallace's tenure as governor of Alabama,he promoted "industrial development,low taxes,and trade schools." Wallace unsuccessfully sought the United States presidency as a Democratic Party candidate three times,and once as an American Independent Party candidate,carrying five states in the 1968 election. Wallace opposed desegregation and supported the policies of "Jim Crow" during the Civil Rights Movement,declaring in his infamous 1963 inaugural address that he stood for "segregation now,segregation tomorrow,segregation forever".
Carl Edward Sanders Sr. was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 74th governor of Georgia from 1963 to 1967.
David Hume Kennerly is an American photographer. He won the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for his portfolio of photographs of the Vietnam War,Cambodia,East Pakistani refugees near Calcutta,and the Ali-Frazier fight in Madison Square Garden. He has photographed every American president since Lyndon B Johnson. He is the first presidential scholar at the University of Arizona.
Unity08 was an American political reform movement that sought to offer all voters an opportunity to directly engage in politics by ranking the most crucial issues facing the country,discussing them with the candidates and engaging in an online,secure vote to nominate a bipartisan alternative to the Democratic Party and Republican Party presidential tickets for the 2008 U.S. presidential election. Founded in 2006,the group gained attention from various media outlets,with Newsweek's Jonathan Alter dubbing the group's efforts a kind of open source politics.
The 1970 Georgia gubernatorial election was held on November 3,1970. It was marked by the election as Governor of Georgia of the relatively little-known former state senator Jimmy Carter after a hard battle in the Democratic primary. This election is famous because Carter,who was often regarded as one of the New South Governors,later ran for president in 1976 on his gubernatorial record and won. As of 2025,this was the last time Fulton County was carried by the Republican candidate in a gubernatorial election,the only time it failed to back Carter,and the last time a Democrat in any race won without carrying it. It is also the last time that Clarke County voted for the Republican candidate for governor.
The Draft Bloomberg movement is a political draft movement in the United States that launched in 2007 as an effort to convince New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg to run for President of the United States as an independent candidate in the 2008 election. The movement ended for that election cycle on February 28,2008,when Bloomberg formally announced that he would not run for president.
Running Mates is a 2000 American made-for-television political comedy-drama film directed by Ron Lagomarsino and starring Tom Selleck. The film follows the presidential election campaign of James Pryce,a Democratic Party presidential candidate,who has a hard time deciding whom to pick as his vice-presidential running mate. Laura Linney,Nancy Travis,Faye Dunaway,and Teri Hatcher also star as Pryce's current or former love interests who have had a major influence on his success so far,but who also have a great deal of control over his decisions.
Robert Jerome Lipshutz was an American attorney who served first as the national campaign treasurer for Jimmy Carter's successful 1976 run for the United States Presidency and then as the White House Counsel from 1977 to 1979 during Carter's administration. He played a back channel role in the negotiations between Egypt and Israel that led to the signing of the Camp David Accords in 1978.
Jason James Carter is an American lawyer and politician from the state of Georgia. Carter served in the Georgia State Senate from 2010 to 2015 and was the Democratic Party nominee for governor of Georgia in 2014. He is the grandson of former U.S. President Jimmy Carter.
Timothy E. Kraft was a retired Democratic political consultant,best known as the campaign manager for the unsuccessful reelection bid of U.S. President Jimmy Carter. In September 1980,only weeks before the general election,he stepped down amid an uncorroborated charge,later resolved,that he had previously used cocaine.
The Walter Mondale 1984 presidential campaign began on February 21,1983,when Walter Mondale,a former Minnesota senator and vice president of the United States,announced that he was running for president in a speech at the Minnesota State Capitol. Mondale won the Democratic Party's presidential nomination after convincing Frank Lautenberg,a previously unpledged party delegate,to support him. Lautenberg's vote gave Mondale the 1,967 delegate votes needed to become the Democratic Party's nominee. Mondale picked Geraldine Ferraro,a U.S. representative from New York,as his running mate.
The presidential transition of Jimmy Carter began when he won the 1976 United States presidential election,becoming the president-elect,and ended when Carter was inaugurated on January 20,1977. Carter had become president-elect once the election results became clear on November 3,1976,the day after the election.
In the 1976 United States presidential election,Jimmy Carter and his running mate,Walter Mondale,were elected president and vice president,defeating incumbent Republican president Gerald Ford and his running mate,Bob Dole.
