East Brunswick Flags At Half-Staff For 30 Days To Honor Jimmy Carter

EAST BRUNSWICK, NJ – Like the rest of the country, East Brunswick is mourning the death of former president Jimmy Carter.

Mayor Brad Cohen has led the township in paying tribute to the humanitarian and Noebl peace Prize winner. All flags in the township will be at half mast for the next 30 days in honor of President Carter.

This follows President Joe Biden’s order for all U.S. flags “at all government buildings and facilities” to be displayed at half-staff for 30 days.

Biden has also marked Jan. 9, 2025, as a National Day of Mourning.

On behalf of the Township of East Brunswick, I would like to recognize the passing of Jimmy Carter, the 39th President of the United States of America. Despite his short one term in office, he was able to craft a peace treaty between Israel and Egypt that lasts to this day. Additionally, he provided the stability and healing needed by a nation that had endured the Watergate Crisis and the first, ever, resignation of a sitting President. Carter was that bridge between the post-Vietnam, post-Watergate national cynicism and the Decade of Decadence that described the 1980s,” Cohen said in a statement.

“Passing at 100 years of age, Mr. Carter holds the record for the longest living ex-President. His greatest legacy and contribution to this country came from his post-presidency philanthropy and volunteerism. Countless lives were made so much better due to the tireless work of Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter.”

Carter, the World War II veteran and Georgia peanut farmer whose one-term presidency evolved into a post-White House life as a distinguished diplomat, active humanitarian and Nobel Prize winner, died Sunday, Dec. 29, at his home in Plains, Georgia. He was 100 years old.

His son, Chip Carter confirmed that the former president died about 3:45 p.m., both The Washington Post and Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. His family was with the former president when he died, The Carter Center said.

“May his family and the nation draw comfort in knowing that a true public servant is finally at rest and rejoined with the true love of his life - Rosalynn Carter,” Cohen said.

The nation’s 39th president had been in hospice care since February 2023. After a series of short hospitalizations, Carter decided to “spend his remaining time at home with his family and receive hospice care instead of additional medical intervention,” the Carter Center said in a statement at the time.

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