The casket of the late former US President Jimmy Carter arrives within the Rotunda of the US Capitol in Washington DC on January 7, 2025. Carter, the thirty ninth President of the USA, died on the age of 100 on December 29, 2024 at his residence in Plains, Georgia. (Picture by J. Scott Applewhite / POOL / AFP)
The physique of late United States President Jimmy Carter was transferred Tuesday in a grand and solemn navy ceremony to the US Capitol, the place it’ll lie in state till a nationwide funeral later this week.
Carter, who died on December 29 on the age of 100, served a single time period from 1977-1981 and was extensively praised for his post-presidential humanitarian efforts, for which he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002.
His physique arrived on the snow-covered US Capitol, the place it’ll stay till Thursday, after a full day of ceremonious journey that started in his native Georgia.
Having been flown to Washington aboard a presidential US Air Power jet, his flag-draped casket was carried atop a gun carriage in a funeral procession from the US Navy Memorial — an ode to his navy service on submarines — to Capitol Hill, tracing the alternative route he took throughout his inauguration parade.
Lots of of US service members accompanied the procession down Pennsylvania Avenue, which was cleared of snow from a latest winter storm that has prompted federal workplace and faculty closures within the space.
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Army pallbearers then carried his casket as much as the Capitol Rotunda the place a brief service was held, with Carter’s household, members of Congress and different dignitaries together with Chief Justice John Roberts and Vice President Kamala Harris in attendance.
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Carter is the thirteenth former US president to lie in state within the Capitol. Abraham Lincoln, assassinated in 1865, was the primary.
The ceremony has taken on added significance, coming a day after the anniversary of the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot, during which Donald Trump’s supporters stormed the constructing in an try to dam certification of Joe Biden’s election victory.
On Monday, Congress licensed Trump’s win over Harris with none disruptions and with the advanced underneath very heavy safety.
A state funeral service is to be held Thursday on the Nationwide Cathedral, an Episcopal church in Washington that additionally hosted funerals for former Presidents Dwight Eisenhower, Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford and George H.W. Bush.
Present President Joe Biden is to ship the eulogy for his fellow Democrat.
All 4 residing former presidents — Invoice Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Trump — are anticipated to attend.
Biden has declared Thursday a nationwide day of mourning, with federal authorities workplaces to be closed for the day.
He has additionally ordered flags to half-staff for 30 days as is customary, which signifies that would be the case throughout Trump’s January 20 inauguration, one thing the Republican has criticized.
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The primary president to achieve triple digits, Carter had been in hospice care since February 2023 in his hometown of Plains, Georgia, the place he died and shall be buried subsequent to his late spouse, former First Woman Rosalynn Carter.
