Today’s lawmakers hailed the 39th president, but their predecessors made his four years in office a constant battle and derailed many Carter initiatives.

The remains of Jimmy Carter, who served only one term in the White House but lived longer than any U.S. president in history, arrived at the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday to lie in state ahead of a Thursday funeral.

A family funeral service will be held for the 39th president before he is buried beside his wife. President Biden, one of the five living presidents who attended the state funeral in Washington, remembered Mr.

Jimmy Carter, who considered himself an outsider even as he sat in the Oval Office as the 39th U.S. president, will be honored Thursday with the pageantry of a funeral at Washington National Cathedral before a second service and burial in his tiny Georgia hometown.