US President Joe Biden has scheduled a state funeral for Jimmy Carter on 9 January and has declared it a National Day of Mourning.
Mr Carter, who died yesterday aged 100, will be honoured with public observances in his beloved home state of Georgia and in Washington, DC in the coming days.
The first president to reach triple digits, Mr Carter had been in hospice care in his home town of Plains since February 2023.
The Carter Center, his post-presidential humanitarian and pro-democracy organization, announced yesterday he had died "peacefully" at home "surrounded by his family."
The White House flag was lowered to half-staff in honour of Mr Carter.
No formal announcements have been made about ceremonies in Georgia, although he is expected to be conveyed by motorcade to the state capitol in Atlanta, The New York Times reported, citing longstanding plans.
He will lie in repose for around 36 hours at the Carter Center, the organization said, before being flown to Washington to lie in state at the US Capitol for around the same duration.
He will be buried in Plains after the traditional televised funeral at Washington National Cathedral accorded to every US president.
Flags flew at half-staff across the United States as global tributes poured in for the life and legacy of Jimmy Carter - the longest-lived US president who died aged 100.
The Georgia native, whose unlikely political ascent carried him from picking peanuts on the family farm to the Oval Office, was remembered in glowing eulogies as an ardent defender of human rights and champion of the downtrodden.
First US president born in a hospital
The US Navy veteran defied the odds to enjoy a long post-presidency, after four years in the Oval Office notable for his success in forging peace between Israel and Egypt, but overshadowed by the Iran hostage affair and his handling of an oil crisis.
The father-of-four lost in a landslide to Ronald Reagan in 1980.
Yet in the decades that followed, Mr Carter's reputation grew through his humanitarian and diplomatic work and his efforts to build homes with his wife Rosalynn as part of Habitat for Humanity.
Mr Carter won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 "for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development."
The first US president born in a hospital, he taught Sunday school at Maranatha Baptist, his church in Plains, well into his 90s.
He was married for 77 years to Rosalynn, a fellow Plains native who had known Mr Carter her entire life.
By the time she died at age 96 on 19 November 2023, it was the longest presidential marriage in US history.
Mr Carter's final public appearance was at his wife's memorial service, where he sat in the front row in a wheelchair.
