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Presidential Bio/Life and Times Of Jimmie Carter Jimmy Carter's beginning was a very simple and typical "American style" start. He was born James Earl Carter, Jr., on October 1, 1924, in Plains, Georgia. His family lived there for the first three years of his life, and then moved to Archery, Georgia, just outside of Plains. He lived there until he was seventeen years old, participating in the family's peanut farm. His parents were James Earl Carter (born 1894, died 1953), and Lillian Gordy Carter (born 1898, died 1983). Jimmy had 3 siblings, Ruth Carter (Stapleton), Gloria Carter (Spann), and William Alton (Billy) Carter. His ancestry is English, his religion is Baptist. In the year of 1941, Jimmy graduated from high school, which wasn't common for a farm boy at the time. He then spent a year at Georgia Southwestern College. He was the first member of his family ever to go to college. He started at Georgia Southwestern College in 1941 and was there for only a year. Then followed a year at the Georgia Institute of Technology where he received a Bachelor of Science degree from the United States Naval Academy in 1946. Later, he went to the Naval Academy in Annapolis, graduating in 1946, and ranked 60th in a class of 820. Aft