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| Text on Button | James Earl Carter Jr. Our 39th President Inauguration Day-Jan. 20th, 1977 |
| Image Description | Black and white portrait of Jimmy Carter luxuriously surrounded by yellow ribbons, cascading American flag, and topped with an eagle. Red text below portrait over blue background. |
| Curl Text | N.G. SLATER CORP., N.Y.C. 11 |
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| Additional Information | James "Jimmy" Earl Carter ran against incumbent Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr. in the 1976 US Presidential election. Carter's running mate was US Sentator from Minnesota, Walter Mondale. Ford stuck with his vice president, Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller. Carter and Mondale received 50.1% to Ford and Rockefeller's 48% of the popular vote. The electoral votes were not so close with 297 going to Carter and Mondale, 240 for Ford and Rockefeller, and 1 vote from Washington State going to Ronald Reagan. When Carter was elected, he became the first Democrat from the US South to be elected to the office since before the Civil War. During his single term, Carter established the Department of Education and the Department of Energy. His presidential legacy is often overshadowed by economic and international relations problems, culminating with the USSR's invasion of Afghanistan beginning in 1979 and the Iran Hostage Crisis from 1979-1981. Carter lost to Ronald Reagan in the 1980 election by a margin of 440 electoral votes. |
| Catalog ID | PO0131 |