Jimmy Carter’s state funeral to be held Jan. 9 at Washington Nationwide Cathedral

The funeral for former President Jimmy Carter, who died on Sunday on the age of 100, shall be held on Jan. 9 at Washington Nationwide Cathedral.

Carter, the son of a peanut farmer who was elected the nation’s thirty ninth president, handed away surrounded by household at his residence in Plains, Georgia, simply months after he turned the longest-lived former chief government in U.S. historical past.

President Joe Biden, who praised Carter as a “man of precept, religion, and humility,” has additionally marked Jan. 9 as a Nationwide Day of Mourning for the previous Democratic chief.

Washington Nationwide Cathedral, located simply miles north of the White Home, has been the positioning of a number of state funerals for former presidents, together with Dwight Eisenhower, Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford and George H. W. Bush.

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