This story was updated on Thursday, Jan. 9 at 5:32 p.m.
Jimmy Carter was celebrated Thursday for his personal humility and public service before, during and after his presidency during a funeral at Washington National Cathedral featuring the kind of pageantry the 39th U.S. president typically eschewed.
All of Carter’s living successors were in attendance, with President Joe Biden, the first sitting senator to endorse his 1976 run for the White House, delivering a eulogy. His casket was returned afterward to his native Georgia for a private service at his home church and burial next to Rosalynn Carter, his wife of 77 years.
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