USPS to honor Jimmy Carter with Forever stamp

by Atlanta First News staff

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - The U.S. Postal Service on Saturday announced it will issue a commemorative Forever stamp honoring Georgia’s only U.S. president, Jimmy Carter.

The Postal Service plans to release the stamp for purchase here in Atlanta on October 1, which would have been former President Carter’s 101st birthday.

He died Dec. 29, 2024, at the age of 100.

“The stamp program celebrates the best in American culture, places and people, and it is difficult to consider a more fitting honoree than former President Jimmy Carter,” said Peter Pastre, the Postal Service’s government relations and public policy vice president. “In his support and leadership of his beloved community, state and nation, he lent his quiet, thoughtful and deliberate energy around causes he believed in, and most certainly in his conduct and accomplishments as a former president.

“Jimmy Carter truly personified the best in America. I am honored to participate in the reveal of this stamp art which fully evokes his humanity.”

The stamp art is a 1982 oil-on-linen painting created in preparation for President Carter’s official White House portrait.

“The Carter family and the Friends of Jimmy Carter are honored to be able to take part in revealing the design for President Carter’s Forever stamp,” Kim Carter Fuller, executive director of the Friends of Jimmy Carter, said. “Together we’ve had the distinct privilege of a front row seat to his life and legacy, and today’s reveal gives the world an opportunity to share his legacy with others on a daily basis.”

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