PLAINS, Georgia — Longtime friends and family of Jimmy Carter milled around his hometown of Plains to celebrate his 100th birthday on Tuesday, the first time a United States president has lived a full century.

The milestone is the latest in a life that took the Depression-era farmer's son to the White House and across the world as a Nobel Peace Prize-winning humanitarian and advocate for democracy.

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