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Meeting 'Mr. Jimmy'

Carter since cancer

Atlantans, regular folks share their favorite stories

Readers of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution shared stories of where they met former President Jimmy Carter over the years, through photos and in their own words.

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. 
MANDATORY CREDIT: BILLY DOWNS / THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION

At college. At the ballpark. At his library. Readers have met the former Georgia governor everywhere.

After the 39th president announced he had liver cancer in 2015, the public shared their stories of meeting Carter

Jimmy Carter at a Decatur baseball game

Jimmy Carter, one of us

A chance encourter, 16 years ago, underscores what so many of us know: Jimmy Carter, perhaps more than any other chief executive in this and the previous century, is the peopl

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Washington, then Plains, says farewell to Jimmy Carter as he is buried

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