At least 28 governors have now ordered flags to be flown at full-staff on Inauguration Day, raising flags before the end of the mourning period for Jimmy Carter.

The order comes as the nation mourns the loss of former President Jimmy Carter, which prompted flags to be flown at half-staff for 30 days after his death.

It was September 1976 and a young kid from Crosby had just received the biggest assignment of his four-month-old professional reporting career in Bismarck -- cover Jimmy Carter's visit.

Leading a cohort of next-generation Southern leaders in both parties, Carter grafted the region back on the national map by repudiating Jim Crow, firmly and finally extinguishing George Wallace as a political force and assembling a fearsome, if fleeting, biracial general election coalition.

Eight states have ordered flags raised for Inauguration Day, even though it is customary to keep them lowered for 30 days after a president's death

Although the U.S. flag is at half-staff to mark the death of President Jimmy Carter, 8 Republican-led states will raise flags for Trump's inauguration

Gov. Kelly Armstrong directed the U.S. and North Dakota flags to be flown at full staff on Monday, Jan. 20, at the North Dakota Capitol and all state buildings in celebration of the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump.

BISMARCK, N.D. (Valley News Live) - Gov. Kelly Armstrong directed U.S. and North Dakota flags to be flown at full staff on Jan. 20 at the North Dakota Capitol and all state buildings in celebration of the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump.

Flags should fly at full staff in South Carolina, by order of Gov. Henry McMaster, for Monday’s presidential inauguration then return to half-staff honoring former President

Gavin Newsom will join Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson and several GOP governors in temporarily raising U.S. flags to full height for President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration.

Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe has ordered U.S. and Missouri flags to be flown at full-staff on January 20, 2025, at all state buildings and grounds in honor of Inauguration Day. Flags will fly at full-staff for 24 hours, according to the executive order.

Jimmy Carter, 39th president of the United States, arrives at Winfield House for his stay during the Economic Summit, London, UK, May 7, 1977. (Hilaria McCarthy/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) The nation paid its final respects on Thursday to former President Jimmy Carter, who died at 100 on Dec. 29.