The humblest president in history: How Jimmy and Rosalynn returned to their Plains home after the White House

Jimmy Carter (left) pictured with his wife Rosalynn Carter (right) outside their Plains, Georgia home in 1988. The Carters lived in a home valued at just $167,000 after they left the White House, the Washington Post reports - (AFP via Getty Images)

Jimmy Carter once held the highest office in the land — but was just as content in his family home in small town Georgia.

At the age of 56, having lost the 1980 election to Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter returned to Plains, Georgia, the small town where both he and his wife Rosalynn were born in the 1920s.