Jimmy Carter turns 99 at home with Rosalynn and other family as tributes come from around the world

Jimmy Carter has always been a man of discipline and habit. The gathering will take place in the same one-story structure where the Carters lived before he was first elected to the Georgia Senate in 1962. “The remarkable piece to me and I think to my family is that while my grandparents have accomplished so much, they have really remained the same sort of South Georgia couple that lives in a 600-person village where they were born,” said grandson Jason Carter, who chairs the board at The Carter Center, which his grandparents founded in 1982 after leaving the White House a year earlier.