# @9newsdenver on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DEm_svGMhyl
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/26027148-9newsdenver-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-01-09T15:08:07.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** 9NEWS (@9newsdenver) — https://gondola.cc/9newsdenver

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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.

The proceedings began in the morning as military service members carried Carter's flag-draped casket down the east steps of the U.S. Capitol, where the former president had laid in state, to be transported to the cathedral. There was also a 21-gun salute.

President Joe Biden, who was the first sitting senator to endorse Carter's 1976 campaign, will eulogize his fellow Democrat 11 days before he leaves office. All of Carter's living successors are expected to attend the Washington funeral, including President-elect Donald Trump, who paid his respects in the Capitol Rotunda on Wednesday.

The rare gathering of commanders in chief offers an unusual moment of comity for the nation in a factionalized, hyper-partisan era. Days of formal ceremonies and remembrances from political leaders, business titans and rank-and-file citizens have honored Carter, who died Dec. 29 at the age of 100, for decency and using a prodigious work ethic to do more than obtain political power.

Read more and watch the memorial service at the link in our bio.

#RIP #JimmyCarter

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