Photos: Jimmy Carter's smile

Jimmy Carter

Photos: Jimmy Carter's smile

Oct. 1 is Jimmy Carter's birthday. It's also reputed to be World Smile Day. It's known in Georgia that Carter's smile is one of his best-known features. Here's picture-perfect proof.

July 10, 2021 Plains - Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, celebrate their 75th wedding anniversary with a private reception for more than 300 invited guests at Plains High School in Plains on Saturday, July 10, 2021. (Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com)

Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter shakes hands with the crowd in Warm Spring, Ga. at the beginning of his presidential campaign tour on Sept. 6, 1976.
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Georgia Governor-elect Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn celebrate his election win on Nov. 3,1970.
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Former president Jimmy Carter waves to fans after he found a seat before the home opener against the Milwaukee Brewers at Turner Field in Atlanta on Friday, April 13, 2012.

Former President Jimmy Carter answers questions from students during a 2018 town hall at Emory University in Atlanta. Carter's next annual town hall, in 2019, would be his last. He died in December 2024 at age 100.

Jimmy Carter and Rosalynn Carter give future homeowner Africa Locke a Bible for her home.

1992 (Atlanta): Guest stars occasionally stop by during the Carters' work projects. In 1992, two months before being elected president, Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton helped volunteer at an Atlanta project. Also joining them were Habitat for Humanity founder Miller Fuller (left), Hillary Clinton and Tipper Gore. (DWIGHT ROSS JR. / AJCP374-002d AJC archive at the GSU Library Special Collections)

Jimmy Carter chats with other volunteers at last November’s one-day Habitat for Humanity build in Memphis. The former president and his wife will return to Memphis for Habitat’s 33rd Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Work Project Aug. 21 - 26. AJC photo by Ben Gray

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Oct. 1 is Jimmy Carter's birthday. It's also reputed to be World Smile Day. It's known in Georgia that Carter's smile is one of his best-known features. Here's picture-perfect proof. This 2014 photo is from Carter's 90th birthday, an ice cream social in his hometown of Plains, as the former president gives 11-month-old Maggie Shoulta a hug . CURTIS COMPTON / CCOMPTON@AJC.COM