Supporters and friends of the late President Carter will attend his funeral on Thursday at the National Cathedral in Washington, DC.

The service, scheduled to begin at 11 a.m., comes as President Biden declared Thursday a national day of mourning for the 38th president, who died on December 29 at the age of 100.

The so-called President’s Club – the five living men who once occupied the White House – will gather for the event. President Biden and former Presidents Clinton, George W. Bush, Obama and President-elect Trump will meet for the first time since former President George HW Bush’s funeral in 2018.

Biden will give the eulogy.

Supporters and friends of President Carter will attend his funeral on Thursday at the National Cathedral in Washington, DC (Fox News)

Also expected to attend are House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., as well as their Democratic counterparts, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y. , and Senate Minority Leader Chuck in attendance are Schumer, DN.Y.

The tributes began Jan. 4 when a motorcade carried Carter’s body through his hometown of Plains, Georgia, before heading to Atlanta to the Carter Presidential Center, where family and loved ones paid their respects.

Carter then rested at the Carter Center and then at the Capitol, where the public could pay their respects from Tuesday evening into early Thursday.

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After the D.C. service, the Carter family will return to Plains for a private ceremony at Maranatha Baptist Church and another procession through Plains, where supporters will be asked to line the streets for the motorcade before arriving at his property next to his late wife is buried. Rosalynn, who died in 2023.

Carter, the former governor of Georgia, won the presidency in 1976. He was guided by his devout Christian faith and was determined to restore trust in government after Watergate and Vietnam. But after four years in office and hampered by stubborn double-digit inflation and high unemployment, he was soundly defeated by Ronald Reagan for re-election.

Democratic presidential candidate Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn spend a moment aboard his campaign plane. (Getty Images)

A military team carries former President Carter’s casket into the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum to lay him to rest Saturday, Jan. 4, 2025, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson, Pool)

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During his time in the White House, Carter established extensive diplomatic relations with China and led negotiations for a nuclear arms limitation treaty with the Soviet Union. Domestically, he led several conservation efforts and showed the same love of nature as president as he had as a young farmer in Plains.

Carter spent the rest of his years in the modest ranch house he built with his wife in 1961, building homes with Habitat for Humanity and making repeated forays into foreign policy when he felt it necessary, a tendency that affected his relationship with him The Presidents’ Club was tense at times.

He made most of his living by writing books — 32 in all — but didn’t collect seven-figure checks for speeches or take cushy executive jobs like other presidents did.

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In his free time, Carter enjoyed fishing, running and working. A deeply religious man, he served as a deacon at the Maranatha Baptist Church of Plains.

Carter is survived by his four children, 11 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren.