PLAINS, Ga. (WALB) - Jimmy Carter was the 39th United States president and the longest-living U.S. president.

While people know Carter as the 39th president, a civil rights activist, and humanitarian, being connected to the Carter Center and Habitat for Humanity, he has done so much more nationally and internationally.

How much do you know about Jimmy Carter?

• Carter was the first president to be born in a hospital.
• Carter was the first person on his father’s side to graduate from high school, according to The Constitution Center.
• In 1946, Carter graduated in the top 10% of his class at the U.S. Naval Academy, according to The Constitution Center. Carter served in the U.S. Navy from 1946-1953, according to The Jimmy Carter Library.
• Effective April 1, 1979, Carter signed Executive Order 12127 which established the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Carter gave FEMA the dual mission of emergency management and civil defense.
• During Carter’s time in local government, he served on the Sumter County School Board where he later became the chairman of the board.
• In 1962, Carter was elected to the Georgia State Senate on a platform founded on equal educational opportunities for all.
• His support of civil rights hurt his early political career in Georgia. He appointed the first African-Americans to serve on the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia, the state Board of Paroles and as a trial court judge in Georgia.
• Carter has an emphasis on energy conservation and alternative energy sources. He established the Department of Energy and invested billions of dollars in research and development that stimulated the alternative energy industry.
• Carter created the Department of Education so that the federal government could more effectively, efficiently and responsively meet its responsibilities. He increased funding for early childhood education and college tuition aid.
• After Carter’s reelection loss in 1980, famous author F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote that Carter’s public career after the White House was the second act of his life, according to the Constitution Center.
• According to The Constitution Center, in 2002, Carter received the Nobel Prize “for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development.”
• Harry Truman was Carter’s favorite president.
• Jimmy Carter is a three-time Grammy winner and was nominated for a Grammy nine times. His most recent Grammy was for Best Spoken Word or Non-Musical Album for “Faith - A Journey For All.”
• Since leaving the White House, Carter has written several books, many of which were best sellers.

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