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JIMMY Carter grew up on a farm in Georgia and graduated from the US Naval Academy in 1946.

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After working with the nuclear submarine programme, he resigned his commission in 1953 and returned to farming.

In 1962 he entered local politics and by 1971 was elected Governor of Georgia.

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