Former President Jimmy Carter turned 100 years old on Tuesday, making him the longest living person to hold the nation’s highest office.
At the time of his birth in Plains, Georgia in 1924, Calvin Coolidge was in office as the US was grappling with the effects of prohibition. The Great Depression hadn’t happened yet.
Carter’s life would coincide with several other significant moments in the country’s history. The completion of the Empire State Building, World War II, the Korean War and the first hydrogen bomb test all happened within his storied lifetime.
Carter has also lived at the same time as an astonishing 17 presidents, which we have listed below.