PLAINS, Ga. — The late President Jimmy Carter will be honored with a commemorative Forever stamp on what would have been his 101st birthday.

The U.S. Postal Service will release the stamp for purchase on Oct. 1 in Atlanta.

The postage features a 1982 portrait of the nation’s 39th president by painter Herbert E. Abrams. The stamp art was unveiled Saturday at the Jimmy Carter National Historical Park in Plains.

Carter, the longest-lived U.S. president, died Dec. 29, 2024 .

“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," Peter Pastre, the Postal Service’s government relations and public policy vice president, said in a statement.

The oil-on-linen painting that is

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