Former US President Jimmy Carter remembered for a life that rose above politics

By Jeff Mason, Katharine Jackson and Bo Erickson

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Jimmy Carter, the late U.S. president who served only one term in office and was widely admired for his humanitarian work after leaving the White House, was remembered during his state funeral on Thursday as a man who put honesty and kindness above partisan politics.

Hundreds of mourners, including President Joe Biden and the four living former U.S. presidents, filed into the Washington National Cathedral, where a military guard deposited Carter's flag-draped coffin at the start of a roughly two-hour service that featured tributes to Carter's long life.

Fellow Democrat Biden eulogized the 39th president, who died on Dec. 29 at the age of 100, saying Carter's life was the "story of a man who never let the tides of politics divert him from his mission to serve and shape the world."

"The man had character," Biden said.

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