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List of United States Presidents by age


This is a list of presidents of the United States by age. The first table charts the age of each United States president at the time of presidential inauguration (first inauguration if elected to multiple and consecutive terms), upon leaving office, and at the time of death. Each president's lifespan (age at death) is measured in two ways, to allow for the differing number of leap days that each experienced. The first figure is the number of days between the president's date of birth and date of death, allowing for leap days; in parentheses, the same period is given in years and days, with the years being the number of whole years that the president lived, and the days being the number of days since the last birthday. Where the president is still living, their lifespan is calculated up to November 4, 2017. The second table includes those presidents who had the distinction among their peers of being the oldest living president, and charts both when they became and ceased to be oldest living.

The median age upon accession to the presidency is roughly 55 years and 6 months, which is about how old Benjamin Harrison was at the time of his inauguration. The youngest person to assume the office was Theodore Roosevelt, who became president following William McKinley's assassination, at the age of 42 years, 322 days. The youngest person elected president was John F. Kennedy, who was inaugurated into office at the age of 43 years, 236 days. Assassinated three years into his term, he became the youngest at the time of leaving office (46 years, 177 days); the youngest person at the time of leaving office after serving a full four-year term was Theodore Roosevelt (50 years, 128 days). The oldest person at the time of entering office was Donald Trump, at the age of 70 years, 220 days; Ronald Reagan was the oldest person in office, at the age of 77 years, 349 days when his presidency ended in January 1989.


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