Former U.S. President Carter hospitalized for bleeding on the brain
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Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter was admitted to an Atlanta hospital on Monday for a procedure to relieve brain pressure from bleeding caused by recent falls, the Carter Center said in a statement.

Carter, 95, the country's oldest living president, was admitted to Emory University Hospital three weeks after suffering a minor pelvic fracture in a fall at his home in Plains, Georgia. He was released from the hospital a few days after that accident.

A previous fall earlier in October required stitches to Carter's face, but he resumed work soon after on a homebuilding project for the nonprofit group Habitat for Humanity.

In May, the former Democratic president broke his hip, also at home, requiring him to undergo surgery. He was hospitalized briefly in 2017 for dehydration and was diagnosed with skin cancer in 2015.

No information was immediately provided about the circumstances leading to his latest hospitalization.

The procedure to relieve pressure on his brain was scheduled for Tuesday morning, the Carter Center said, adding that he was "resting comfortably," and that his wife, Rosalynn, 92, was with him.

(L-R)Former U.S. President Barack Obama, former U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama, former U.S. President Bill Clinton, former First Lady Hillary Clinton and former U.S. President Jimmy Carter listen during a funeral service for former U.S. President George H. W. Bush at the National Cathedral in Washington, U.S. December 5, 2018. /VCG Photo

(L-R)Former U.S. President Barack Obama, former U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama, former U.S. President Bill Clinton, former First Lady Hillary Clinton and former U.S. President Jimmy Carter listen during a funeral service for former U.S. President George H. W. Bush at the National Cathedral in Washington, U.S. December 5, 2018. /VCG Photo

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and former First Lady Rosalynn Carter arrive for the Presidential Inauguration of Donald Trump at Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S. January 20, 2017. /VCG Photo

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and former First Lady Rosalynn Carter arrive for the Presidential Inauguration of Donald Trump at Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S. January 20, 2017. /VCG Photo

Carter, a former peanut farmer and Georgia governor, defeated Republican President Gerald Ford in 1976 to become the nation's 39th president, serving a single four-year term in the White House.

The diplomatic breakthrough with China was also one of the major foreign policy accomplishments of his presidency from 1977 to 1981.

In late 1978, Carter and then Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping reached the historic decision to establish the full diplomatic relationship between the United States and the People's Republic of China on January 1, 1979.

His presidency was overshadowed by an economic recession, an energy crisis and the taking of U.S. hostages by Iran, but he also played a leading role in brokering the Camp David Accords leading to an Egypt-Israel peace treaty. He lost his 1980 re-election bid to Republican Ronald Reagan.

After leaving office in 1981, Carter went on to become an international fixture and a noted humanitarian.

In 1982, he and his wife, Rosalynn, founded the Carter Center, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization focused on national and international issues of public policy in 1982. He received the Nobel Peace Prize for his work through the Carter Center in 2002.

(With input from Reuters) 

(Cover: Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter sits after delivering a lecture at the House of Lords in London, UK February 3, 2016. /VCG Photo)