May 15 (UPI) -- Jimmy Carter , who died Sunday at age 100, was a dark horse Democratic presidential candidate with little national recognition when he beat Republican incumbent Gerald Ford in 1976. The introspective former peanut farmer pledged a new era of honesty and forthrightness at home and abroad, a promise that resonated with voters eager for change following the Watergate scandal and the Vietnam War. Advertisement His presidency, however, lasted only one term before Ronald Reagan