Carter funeral reunites current and former presidents before Trump inauguration

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The country’s five living presidents led the nation as it said one last, final goodbye to its longest-living commander in chief, the late Jimmy Carter, who died last month at the age of 100.

President Joe Biden, the first sitting senator to endorse Carter’s one and only presidential campaign in 1976, eulogized him at Wednesday’s state funeral in Washington. Carter had been receiving hospice care at his home in Plains, Georgia, since 2023 for an undisclosed illness.

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