The Postal Service will release a stamp this year to honor former President Jimmy Carter, who died last December.
The stamp will be available beginning Oct. 1, the 101st anniversary of Carter’s birth.
“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, who announced the stamp and revealed its artwork over the weekend at an event in Carter’s hometown of Plains.
“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, and most certainly in his conduct and accomplishments as a former president, Jimmy Carter truly personified the best in America,” Pastre said.
Representatives of the Carter family, the Friends of Jimmy Carter and the National Park Service joined Pastre at the event, held at the Jimmy Carter National Historical Park.