When Gerald Ford passed away on Dec. 26, 2006, former President George W. Bush declared Jan. 2, 2007 as a national day of mourning. The annual National Day of Mourning is every year in November on ...

On Dec. 29, 2024 President Joe Biden declared Jan. 9 as National Day of Mourning to honor the nations 39th president and humanitarian President Jimmy Carter. Carter passed away on Dec. 29, 2024 ...

The most recent national day of mourning in the United States occurred after the death of former President George H.W. Bush in 2018.

President Joe Biden announced in an executive order issued on Dec. 30, 2024, that Jan. 9, 2025, the day of Jimmy Carter’s state funeral, would be a “National Day of Mourning.” ...

Today, Jan. 9, is a day of mourning across the United States for former President Jimmy Carter. Carter died Sunday, Dec. 29, 2024, at his home in Plains, Georgia. He was 100, the only former ...

Biden noted that Carter came from humble roots — his father was a farmer and his mother a nurse — and that he entered the United States Naval Academy in 1943 at the height of World War II.

With the funeral for former President Jimmy Carter today at the Washington National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., today is a national day of mourning in the United States.. The last national day ...

A national day of mourning will be observed on Thursday for Jimmy Carter, who died on Dec. 29 at 100 years old.. In a proclamation after Mr. Carter’s death, President Biden called him “a man ...

Following the passing of Jimmy Carter, the 39th President of the United States, on Dec. 29, President Joe Biden declared Thursday, Jan. 9, as a National Day of Mourning to honor his legacy.