President Biden signed an executive order on Monday to close the federal government on Jan. 9 to honor the late President Jimmy Carter, whose funeral will be that day.

The closures apply to all federal government executive departments and agencies as “a mark of respect for James Earl Carter, Jr., the thirty-ninth President of the United States,” it said.

President Trump issued a similar order in 2018 for the funeral of George H.W. Bush, closing nearly all federal offices as a day of mourning for the former president.

President George W. Bush also closed most of the government in 2006 for Gerald Ford’s funeral.

Mr. Carter, a Georgia peanut farmer and naval officer, died peacefully Sunday surrounded by family. He was 100 years old and the nation’s longest-living president.

Congressional leaders announced Mr. Carter would lie in state in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol from the afternoon of Jan. 7 to the morning of Jan. 9. The Capitol will be open to the public to allow people to pay their respects.

Mr. Biden lamented his friend’s passing, saying the world lost an extraordinary leader, statesman, and humanitarian.”

“What’s extraordinary about Jimmy Cater, though, is that millions of people throughout America and the world who never met him thought of him as a dear friend as well,” Mr. Biden said.

Mr. Biden followed that up Monday with the announcement that he was shuttering the government in honor of Mr. Carter.

“By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America …  All executive departments and agencies of the Federal Government shall be closed on January 9, 2025, as a mark of respect for James Earl Carter, Jr., the thirty-ninth President of the United States,” he said in the order.

• Seth McLaughlin can be reached at smclaughlin@washingtontimes.com.