Although old and frail, Jimmy Carter stayed true to his wife Rosalynn in one of his last public moments.

Carter's death Sunday has brought an outpouring of tributes for the 39th president, who was a living link to another era in American history.

Carter's last moments

A little more than year before his death at 100, Carter emerged from hospice care in November 2023 in a wordless but moving display of dedication to his wife of 77 years.

Carter's friend and fellow president Joe Biden extolled Carter's "decency" and "humility" in remarks Sunday.

"Some look at Jimmy Carter and see a man of a bygone era with honesty and character. Faith and humility mattered, but I don’t believe it’s a bygone era,” Biden said, in a dig at President-elect Trump. “We’d all do well to try to be more like Jimmy Carter.”

Carter's presidency is largely remembered as a time of economic difficulty and global crisis. Under his leadership, Americans struggled with high inflation, a crippling fuel shortage and a humiliating hostage-taking in Iran.

But Carter has received praise for signing the Camp David Accords, which was the first peace treaty between Israel and one of its Arab neighbors - Egypt.

Carter served one term before losing re-election to Ronald Reagan in a landslide in 1980.

Dying wish

The tumultuous events of Carter's one-term presidency have cast a cloud on his legacy. But Carter reinvented his image in his post-presidency, becoming known as a Nobel Prize-winning humanitarian who lived modestly.

Carter died Sunday after almost two years in hospice care, making him the longest-living U.S. president. He outlived two presidents who followed him, Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush.

The public received another rare glimpse of Carter on his 100th birthday in October, when he the frail-looking president was wheeled out to view a military fly-over in his honor at his home in Plains, Georgia.

According to his son Chip, Carter fulfilled his dying wish of casting a vote for Democrat Kamala Harris in 2024. Harris lost the presidential election to Republican Donald Trump.

“He’s plugged in,” Chip Carter told The Associated Press. “I asked him two months ago if he was trying to live to be 100, and he said, ‘No, I’m trying to live to vote for Kamala Harris.’

Carter will be buried with his wife in Plains, Georgia after a state funeral at Washington National Cathedral on January 9th.