Carter will remain at the Capitol until Thursday morning, when he is transported to Washington National Cathedral for a state funeral.

The public will be able to pay their respects to the 39th president at the U.S. Capitol until his state funeral Thursday morning.

“Jimmy Carter was always an outsider ,” said biographer Jonathan Alter, explaining how Carter capitalized on the fallout of the Vietnam War and Watergate scandal that toppled Richard Nixon. “The country was thirsting for moral renewal and for Carter, as this genuinely religious figure, to come in and clean things up."