The former president died on Sunday at the age of 100.
A state funeral for former President Jimmy Carter will take place in Washington on Jan. 9.
President Joe Biden also declared that Thursday a National Day of Mourning. Carter was the longest-lived former president when he died Sunday at his home in Plains, Georgia, at the age of 100.
Biden ordered U.S. flags to fly at half-staff for 30 days from Sunday.
Carter, a peanut farmer and former governor of Georgia, became the country’s 39th president in 1977. He ran on the promise of restoring trust in government after the the Watergate scandal and the Vietnam War.
Carter served only one term, defeated by Ronald Reagan in the midst of high inflation and the Iran hostage crisis.
He later gained a reputation as a tireless humanitarian and won a Nobel Peace Prize in 2002.