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President Carter's peanut farm, known as Plains Peanuts, was located in the state of Georgia.
The first President to grow peanuts was Thomas Jefferson, who held a great interest in botany, as a part of his plantations crop rotation to replenish the nitrogen content of his soil for cotton.Jimmy Carter owned a peanut distribution business that he inherited from his father. As a boy or young man, I think he probably did some planting and harvesting of peanuts for his father.Jimmy Carter took over his father's peanut business after his father died. It may have started as a peanut farm, but by the time that Jimmy ran it, other people raised the peanuts and the Carter Co. bought, stored and resold them.Thomas Jefferson reportedly raised some peanuts but not as a serious cash crop.President Carter
James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. Before he became President he was a peanut farmer.
James Earl "Jimmy" Carter is the peanut farmer from Georgia. He still lives there but sold his peanut business.
In a nutshell, pardon the pun, Jimmy Carter raised peanuts because he was a peaut farmer. He was a peanut farmer because his farm was ideal for growing peanut plants and there was and still is a market for peanuts.
Jimmie Carter (although he couldn't pronounce "nuclear"!)
farm with his peanuts on his peanut farm
President Jimmy Carter was a millionaire peanut farmer.
Carter sold his share of the peanut business before he became president.
Before and after his presidency (1977-1981), Jimmy Carter ran his family's peanut farm in Plains, Georgia. (Alleged mismanagement during his absence left the farm seriously in debt.)
Before becoming President of the US, Jimmy Carter was a peanut farmer.
Carter was a peanut farmer in his early days.