Jimmy Carter or real name James Earl Carter was born in Plains, Georgia on Oct 1, 1924 he was the first of four children. His farther was a manager of a grocer store and after he saved enough money he bought a farm, when jimmy was not in school he worked on the farm selling peanuts earning just a dollar a day he save his money and when cotton was the right price he bought it for just five cents a pound and stored it in a warehouse. Finally when the time was right and cotton was around eighteen cents a pound Jimmy sold it an made a lot of money. After he graduate high school Jimmy attended Georgia Institute of technology where he got a B.S. degree from the united states navel academy. He was on a submarine while in the navy and was promoted all the way to lieutenant and was chosen by Admiral Hyman Rickover for the nuclear submarine program, where he took graduate work at Union College in reaction technology and nuclear physics. Jimmy served as te senior officer of the pre-commissioning crew of the Seawolf. After his father died he returned to Plains, Georgia and took over the Carter farms. With the money Jimmy had from the cotton Jimmy bought a peanut sheller and began shelling peanut soon Jimmy and his wife Rosalynn owned and operated Carter's warehouse, a general purpose store that sold seeds and supplied large peanut prossecors . Jimmy became relatively prosperous from the peanut business and his only competition was the other peanut shellers in the nation. Jimmy Quickly became the leader of his community serving on all sorts of county boards. Finally in 1962 his political career took of he was elected to the Georgia state senate, and in 1971 he was elected Georgia's governor. Then finally in 1977 he was elected the 39th president of the United States. Jimmy was a great president with his foreign policies, had many accomplishments with foreign leaders such as, peace between Egypt and Israel and the SALT II treaty with the Soviet Union.
