Jimmy Carter said July 23, 2010 that he doubts he would have been elected 39th president of the United States without the aid of Jimmy Allen, a Texas Baptist preacher who endorsed him at a time when his 1976 presidential campaign was floundering.
Carter credited Allen's help in an address to some 260 guests at a Georgia event, according to the Everyday Christian website.
"He was reluctant to get involved in politics," Carter said of Allen, "but he remembered that I said I was a born-again Christian."
Although Allen was not an official spokesman for Texas Baptist, Carter said, "because of the introduction and endorsement I got in San Antonio, Texas turned around."
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