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...satisfied with just peanuts, Carter worked on many community projects. As a deacon in the Southern Baptist church, he taught Sunday school and traveled to Pennsylvania and Massachusetts to organize new churches. In 1962 he decided to run for the state senate, and he was defeated???until it was proved that the cemeteries as well as the jails had produced votes for his opponent. The results were overturned and Carter entered the legislature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Jimmy Carter: Not Just Peanuts | 3/8/1976 | See Source »

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