Follow live updates and the latest news as the nation honors Jimmy Carter, the 39th President of the United States.

Jimmy Carter, who considered himself an outsider even as he sat in the Oval Office as the 39th U.S. president, will be honored Thursday with the pageantry of a funeral at Washington National Cathedral before a second service and burial in his tiny Georgia hometown.

President Jimmy Carter will be honored with two funeral services in Washington and Georgia on Thursday, Jan. 9, before his private hometown burial in Plains. The national day of mourning will bring together all five living U.