Age of US Presidents when first taking office 1789-2021

Age of all Presidents of the United States when taking office for the first time from 1789 to 2021

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Release date

2021

Region

United States

Survey time period

1789 to 2021

Supplementary notes

*Died of natural causes while in office.

The age of the Presidents in years and days is as follows:
Theodore Roosevelt: 42 years, 322 days
John F. Kennedy: 43 years, 236 days
Bill Clinton: 46 years, 154 days
Ulysses S. Grant: 46 years, 311 days
Barack Obama: 47 years, 169 days
Franklin Pierce: 48 years, 101 days
James A. Garfield: 49 years, 105 days
James K. Polk: 49 years, 122 days
Millard Fillmore: 50 years, 183 days
John Tyler: 51 years, 6 days
Franklin D. Roosevelt: 51 years, 33 days
Chester A. Arthur: 51 years, 349 days
Grover Cleveland: 51 years, 351 days
Abraham Lincoln: 52 years, 20 days
Jimmy Carter: 52 years, 111 days
Martin Van Buren: 54 years, 89 days
Rutherford B. Hayes: 54 years, 151days
George W. Bush: 54 years, 198 days
Lyndon B. Johnson: 55 years, 87 days
William H. Taft: 55 years, 170 days
Richard Nixon: 56 years, 11 days
Andrew Johnson: 56 years, 107 days
AVERAGE: 56 years, 261 days
Calvin Coolidge: 56 years, 243 days
George Washington: 56 years, 67 days
John Quincy Adams: 57 years, 236 days
Warren G. Harding: 57 years, 273 days
Thomas Jefferson: 57 years, 325 days
James Madison: 57years, 353 days
Herbert Hoover: 58 years, 206 days
William McKinley: 58 years, 228 days
James Monroe: 58 years, 310 days
Benjamin Harrison: 59 years, 196 days
Harry S. Truman: 60 years, 339 days
Gerald Ford: 61 years, 26 days
Zachary Taylor: 61 years, 100 days
John Adams: 61 years, 125 days
Andrew Jackson: 61 years, 354 days
Dwight D. Eisenhower: 62 years, 98 days
Woodrow Wilson: 64years, 66 days
George H. W. Bush: 64 years, 61 days
James Buchanan: 65 years, 315 days
William H. Harrison: 68 years, 23 days
Ronald Reagan: 69 years, 349 days
Donald Trump: 70 years, 220 days
Joe Biden: 78 years, 61 days

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