Jimmy Carter’s funeral will bring all five living presidents together in Washington, DC

Supporters and friends of the late President Carter will attend his funeral Thursday at Washington, DC’s National Cathedral.

The service, which is scheduled to begin at 11, comes as President Biden declared Thursday a national day of mourning for the 38th president, who died on Dec. 29 at the age of 100.

The so-called Presidents’ Club – the five living men who once occupied the White House – will all gather for the event. President Biden and former Presidents Clinton, George W. Bush, Obama and President-elect Trump will meet for the first time since the 2018 funeral of former President George HW Bush.

Biden will deliver the tribute.

Supporters and friends of President Carter will attend his funeral Thursday at Washington, DC’s National Cathedral (Fox News)

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and Senate Majority Leader John Thune, RS.D., are also expected to attend, along with their Democratic counterparts, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, DN.Y., and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, DN. Y.

Tributes began on January 4, when a motorcade carried Carter’s body through his hometown of Plains, Georgia, before heading to Atlanta and the Carter Presidential Center, where family and loved ones paid their respects.

Carter then lay in repose at the Carter Center and then the Capitol, where the public could pay their respects from Tuesday evening until early Thursday.

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After the DC service, the Carter family will return to Plains for a private ceremony at Maranatha Baptist Church and another procession through Plains, where supporters are encouraged to line the streets for the cortege before he is buried on his property next to his late wife, Rosalynn, who died in 2023.

Carter, the former governor of Georgia, won the presidency in 1976. He was guided by his devout Christian faith and determined to restore faith in government after Watergate and Vietnam. But after four years in office and weakened by stubborn double-digit inflation and high unemployment, he was handily defeated for re-election by Ronald Reagan.

Jimmy Carter, the Democratic presidential candidate, and his wife, Rosalynn, share a moment aboard his campaign plane. (Getty Images)

A military team carries former President Carter’s casket into the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum to lie in state in Atlanta, Saturday, Jan. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson, Pool)

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While in the White House, Carter established full diplomatic relations with China and led negotiations for a nuclear limitation treaty with the Soviet Union. Domestically, he led several conservation efforts and showed the same love of nature as president as he did as a young farmer on the Plains.

Carter lived out the rest of his years in the modest ranch house he had built with his wife in 1961, building houses with Habitat for Humanity and returning to foreign policy when he felt it necessary, a tendency that got his relationship to the president’s club, at times, tense.

He earned largely by writing books — 32 in all — but didn’t cash in seven-figure checks for giving speeches or taking on some cushy board job like other presidents.

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In his spare time, Carter, a deeply religious man who served as a deacon for Maranatha Baptist Church of Plains, enjoyed fishing, running and woodworking.

Carter is survived by his four children, 11 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren.