2002 – Jimmy Carter, International peacemaker and humanitarian
Jimmy Carter, thirty-ninth president of the United States, was born October 1, 1924, in the small farming town of Plains, Georgia. On July 7, 1946, he married Rosalynn Smith of Plains.In 1962 he won election to the Georgia Senate. He became Georgia’s 76th governor in 1971. He was elected president...
1994 – Shimon Peres, architect of the Oslo Accords
Born in Poland in 1923, Shimon Peres immigrated wtih his family to Palestine in 1934. He became an activist while living on a kibbutz as a youth. At age twenty-four, when Israel’s first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, appointed him head of the new state’s navy. Peres went on to serve...