Jimmy Carter - Rapid City, SD
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Visitors to Rapid City are greeted by the City of Presidents, a series of life-size bronze statues of our nation’s past presidents along the city’s sidewalks.
The project began in 2000 to honor the legacy of the American presidency.
Waymark Code: WMFA4D
Location: South Dakota, United States
Date Posted: 09/18/2012
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Jimmy Carter, Thirty-Ninth President of the United States - 1977-1981.
Widely known as a peanut farmer, one of his fingers was permanently bent as a result of a peanut-farming accident when he was young.
In 1971, Carter became the governor of Georgia. In 1976, he was the dark horse candidate for president and the campaign centered around President Ford's pardon of Nixon. On Carter's first day in office, he issued a pardon for all those who dodged the draft in the Vietnam War era. He did not pardon deserters, however.
On November 4, 1979, the U.S. embassy in Teheran, Iran was seized and 60 Americans were taken hostage. Fifty two of the hostages were not released, however, until Reagan was president. The hostage crisis was part of the reason that Carter did not win re-election.
Location: Corner of St Joseph Street and 6th
Sculptor: John Lopez
Visit Instructions:
You must have visited the site in person, not online.