Jimmy Carter‘s family members and fellow public figures are paying their respects to the previous president.
Practically two weeks after Carter handed away on the age of 100, President Joe Biden and Dr. Jill Biden in addition to President-Elect Donald Trump and Melania Trump, gathered on the Washington Nationwide Cathedral Jan. 9 for the funeral companies.
Becoming a member of within the remembrances for the previous president had been fellow former U.S. leaders Barack Obama—who was with out Michelle Obama—Invoice Clinton and George W. Bush, together with their wives Hilary Clinton and Laura Bush.
In actual fact, for the primary time since 2018, all 5 dwelling presidents—Biden, Trump, Obama, Clinton and Bush—are collectively underneath one roof. The final time they fashioned a united entrance was at George H. W. Bush‘s Dec. 2018 funeral.
Different attendees at Carter’s service included King Charles III‘s brother, Prince Edward, the Duke of Edinburgh, who arrived from abroad to attend the ceremony and was seated by Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Carter, the thirty ninth president of the US, died on Dec. 29, the Carter Middle introduced in an announcement, noting he handed away peacefully at his house Plains, Georgia, surrounded by household. Following the funeral companies in Washington, D.C., Carter’s physique can be flown to Georgia, the place he can be laid to relaxation alongside his late spouse, former First Woman Rosalynn Carter, who died in Nov. 2023 on the age of 96.
