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01/06/2025

What to Know about Jimmy Carter's Funeral in Washington, D.C.

Jan. 9 will be a federal holiday

Former President Jimmy Carter, the Southern Democrat and Nobel Peace Prize winner who outlived every other former president in U.S. history, will be honored through Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025.

The memorials for the 39th president began at the farm where he grew up in Plains, Georgia, and continued at the Carter Presidential Center in Atlanta. Carter’s remains will be flown to Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on Jan. 7, 2025, and then taken in a procession from the U.S. Navy Memorial to the U.S. Capitol.

He will lie in state at the U.S. Capitol for two days, followed by a public funeral at Washington National Cathedral on Thursday. Afterward, his body will be brought to Plains for a private service at Maranatha Baptist Church, where he taught Sunday school, and burial. Here’s what to know about the events in Washington, D.C.

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