Elmer Carlson Jimmy Carter inauguration collection, 1977.
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Carter, Jimmy, 1924-
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Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr.), thirty-ninth president of the United States, was born on October 1, 1924, in Plains, Georgia, and grew up in the nearby community of Archery. His father, James Earl Carter, Sr., was a farmer and businessman; his mother, Lillian Gordy, a registered nurse. He was educated in the Plains public schools, attended Georgia Southwestern College and the Georgia Institute of Technology, and received a B.S. from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1946. In the Navy he became a ...
Carlson, Elmer T.
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Elmer Carlson was a farmer, agribusiness man and Democratic Party activist from Audubon, Iowa. In 1935 he won the National Corn-husking Championship in Indiana. He was a delegate to the 1952 and 1964 Democratic National Conventions, events he attended with a mule in order to call attention to Iowa's delegates. Carlson established a profitable hybrid seed corn company and at one time owned 1800 acres of land. He was enthusiastic about the election of Jimmy Carter because the U.S. president was a ...
