Here's a look at Jimmy Carter's life in D.C.
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Former President Carter at the Kennedy Center in 2011. Photo: William B. Plowman/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images via Getty Images
Former President Jimmy Carter passed away Sunday at the age of 100. A state funeral will be held for him at the National Cathedral on Jan. 9.
- While he only served one term as president from 1977 to 1981, he is remembered for a long and impactful political career.
Here's what happened when Carter came to Washington:
He enrolled his daughter Amy in public school
Carter made good on a campaign promise to enroll his daughter in D.C. public schools.
- Amy, then 9, began attending Stevens, a historically Black public school in Foggy Bottom, just days after her father took office in 1977. She transferred to Hardy middle school in 1978.
- She was the first child of a president since Teddy Roosevelt to attend a D.C. public school, according to The Washington Post.
He went to First Baptist Church
From the time he entered office until the end of his term, Carter and his family regularly attended the First Baptist church on 16th St. NW.
- In fact, the president taught a monthly Sunday school class for young adults on the sanctuary balcony during his term, Pastor Julie Pennington-Russell tells Axios.
- "Faith was deeply connected to the person he is at the core," Pennington-Russell says.
Carter even taught a class in the midst of negotiating a peace treaty between Israel and Egypt, Christi Harlan, volunteer spokesperson for the church, tells Axios.
- Harlan says Carter described the negotiations in class, and told students that the leaders had agreed on one thing: They all worship the same god.
He came back years later to build homes
In 1992 and 2010, the former president and First Lady Rosalynn Carter returned to D.C. to help build affordable homes with Habitat for Humanity.
- The homes were built on Benning Road Southeast and in Ivy City. Many still stand today, WJLA reported.
"You saw the love, the love that [Carter] gave people," homeowner Hope Gibson told NBC4.