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,

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