After Carter's death on Dec. 29, President Joe Biden declared Jan. 9 as a national day of mourning, closing all executive departments and agencies of the federal government on the same day. Biden also ordered U.

The nation remembered President Jimmy Carter at a national funeral in Washington, D.C. on Thursday. Carter was the 39th president of the United States. He died in December at age 100.

Carter's state funeral began Saturday morning at the Phoebe Sumter Medical Center in Americus, Georgia. After lying in repose at the Carter Presidential Center, Carter's remains were was transported to the U.

The 37th President died in late December at the age of 100. He has been lying in state in the U.S. Capitol since Monday.