The correct statement about Jimmy Carter is:
He was the only Georgian to serve as president of the United States.
This statement is true, as Jimmy Carter was the 39th president of the United States and is the only person from Georgia to have held that office.
The other statements are not correct as follows:
- He did not establish Georgia's first permanent system of education; that was done by others before him.
- He was not the first Georgian to serve on the Supreme Court; that distinction belongs to others.
- He did not establish the HOPE Scholarship; the program was created in the 1990s after his presidency.