ATLANTA — I n 1962, a stylish and progressive Augusta Democrat named Carl Sanders was plotting a run for governor of Georgia. Meanwhile, in south Georgia, another Democrat was plotting his first run for political office: Jimmy Carter had his eye on the state Senate.

Jason Carter remembered his grandfather as a man of God and a man of the people at his Jimmy Carter's state funeral.

Jason Carter said that his grandfather Jimmy Carter’s “life is a love story” during a eulogy at the late president's state funeral