Jimmy Carter, who considered himself an outsider even as he sat in the Oval Office as the 39th U.S. president, will be honored Thursday with the pageantry of a funeral at Washington National Cathedral before a second service and burial in his tiny Georgia hometown.

Over his 100 years on earth, Jimmy Carter ascended to the heights of world political power as the nation’s 39th president. When he lost his bid for a second White House term, Carter returned to his humble southwest Georgia roots to continue and begin anew his life’s next remarkable chapters: farmer,