“Jimmy Carter was always an outsider ,” said biographer Jonathan Alter, explaining how Carter capitalized on the fallout of the Vietnam War and Watergate scandal that toppled Richard Nixon. “The country was thirsting for moral renewal and for Carter, as this genuinely religious figure, to come in and clean things up."

Funeral services continue today for former President Jimmy Carter – as his begins his final trip to Washington D.C. Carter died at the age 100 and leaves behind a life dedicated to decades of service.