Jimmy Carter was widely considered to have one of the greatest post-presidencies in United States history. So when he won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 for his lifetime of work advancing human rights and world peace efforts,

The Nobel committee originally sought to award Carter the peace prize in 1978 for brokering the peace deal between Israel and Egypt, but Carter missed out because of a technicality in the rules. Some 24 years later,

Jimmy Carter, a U.S. president who served only one term but was widely admired for his humanitarian work after leaving the White House, was remembered during his state funeral on Thursday as a man who put honesty and kindness above partisan politics.