# What is Billy Carter doing nowadays?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-billy-carter-doing-nowadays/178111>\
**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [May 28, 2003, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-billy-carter-doing-nowadays/178111 "2003-05-28T20:52:04Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Fatman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/d2c977/32.png) [@Fatman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fatman)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-billy-carter-doing-nowadays/178111/1 "2003-05-28T20:52:04Z")

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This is in response to the open question from  
Is it possible to tell human and simian DNA apart?  
at  
[http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mdnaanalysis.html](http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mdnaanalysis.html)  
the question is:  
SDSTAFF Karen asks:  
What is Billy up to these days?

Assuming she means Billy Carter, he has taken up farming.  
What, more peanuts? No. Cotton.  
His last bit part in a movie was in 1997. He no longer  
owns the gas station.

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**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-billy-carter-doing-nowadays/178111/2 "2003-05-28T22:48:07Z")

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Really? I could have sworn he was dead.

Oh, here we are:

> [@](#):
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> Billy Carter (president’s brother/novelty beer) – Dead. Pancreatic cancer. Died September 25, 1988. Born March 29, 1937.  
> [http://www.dpsinfo.com/dps/cnames.html#top](http://www.dpsinfo.com/dps/cnames.html#top)

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**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-billy-carter-doing-nowadays/178111/3 "2003-05-29T00:16:18Z")

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If he’s dead, then it’s a safe bet that he no longer owns the gas station.

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**Author:** ![j.c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/73ab20/32.png) [@j.c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j.c)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-billy-carter-doing-nowadays/178111/4 "2003-05-29T08:26:31Z")

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Sadly, the gas station and a hound dog called “Festus” are still tied up in probate. Festus keeps trying to chew his way out…

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**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-billy-carter-doing-nowadays/178111/5 "2003-05-29T12:03:36Z")

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Everyone else in Jimmy Carter’s family (both his parents, his brother, and both sisters) is now dead, and they all died of pancreatic cancer:

[http://www.doctorzebra.com/prez/g39.htm](http://www.doctorzebra.com/prez/g39.htm)