James Earl Carter Jr. is an American former politician who served as the 39th president of the United States from 1977 to 1981. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as the 76th governor of Georgia from 1971 to 1975 and as a Georgia state senator from 1963 to 1967
Did Jimmy Carter serve on a nuclear submarine?
Carter became involved with the Navy’s nuclear submarine programs, serving submarine duty and aiding in the engineering and electronics repair aboard SSK-1. He started an atomic power school in 1953. He hoped to serve as the commanding officer aboard the USS Seawolf, one of the first naval submarines to use nuclear power
16 OCT 1952 – 08 OCT 1953— He worked with the US Atomic Energy Commission (Division of Reactor Development, Schenectady Operations Office) From 3 NOV 1952 to 1 MAR 1953 he served on temporary duty with Naval Reactors Branch, US Atomic Energy Commission
Washington, D.C. “assisting in the design and development of nuclear propulsion plants for naval vessels.” From 1 MAR 1953 to 8 OCT 1953 he was under instruction to become an engineering officer for a nuclear power plant.