Happy Birthday, Jimmy Carter! Former President Reaches Milestone, Turns 95

Former President Jimmy Carter, 95, was admitted to Phoebe Sumter Medical Center in Americus over the weekend.

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Updated at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday

Jimmy Carter is celebrating his 95th birthday, becoming the first U.S. president to reach that milestone as he continues his humanitarian work and occasionally wades back into politics and policy debates almost four decades after leaving office.

Carter, who served from 1977-1981 and still lives in tiny Plains, Georgia, planned no public celebrations on Tuesday.