U.S. Presidents Listed From Oldest to Youngest

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U.S. Presidents Listed From Oldest to Youngest (+ Trump Becomes Oldest President-Elect)

While 35 is the minimum age to qualify for U.S. presidency, there is no maximum.

19 inaugurations have involved presidents in their 60s and just four have involved presidents in their 70s.

The median age for U.S. presidents on their first day in office is 55, according to Pew Research.

As for the longest-living president in history, Jimmy Carter holds the record.

Carter, the nation’s 39th president, celebrated his 100th birthday on Oct. 1, 2024.

He is in hospice care at his Georgia residence.

Below is a list of all of the U.S. presidents and their ages (at the end of their term), ranked from oldest to youngest (as reported by CBS News):

Joe Biden (turns 82 on Nov. 20, 2024)

Ronald Reagan, 77

Donald Trump, 74

Dwight D. Eisenhower, 70

Andrew Jackson, 69

James Buchanan, 69

William Henry Harrison, 68

Harry S. Truman, 68

George H. W. Bush, 68

James Monroe, 66

George Washington, 65

John Adams, 65

Thomas Jefferson, 65

James Madison, 65

Zachary Taylor, 65

Woodrow Wilson, 64

Franklin D. Roosevelt, 63

Gerald Ford, 63

George W. Bush, 62

John Quincy Adams, 61

Richard Nixon, 61

Andrew Johnson, 60

Lyndon B. Johnson, 60

Benjamin Harrison, 59

Grover Cleveland, 59

Martin Van Buren, 58

Rutherford Birchard Hayes, 58

William McKinley, 58

Herbert Hoover, 58

Warren G. Harding, 57

Abraham Lincoln, 56

Calvin Coolidge, 56

Jimmy Carter, 56

Chester A. Arthur, 55

William Howard Taft, 55

Barack Obama, 55

John Tyler, 54

Ulysses S. Grant, 54

Bill Clinton, 54

James Knox Polk, 53

Millard Fillmore, 53

Franklin Pierce, 52

Grover Cleveland, 51

Theodore Roosevelt, 50

James A. Garfield, 49

John F. Kennedy, 46

With the 2024 election results officially being announced this morning, Donald Trump becomes the oldest president-elect at 78 years old.

Currently, the two oldest presidents previously sworn into office are Biden (78 on his 2021 Inauguration Day) and Trump (70 on his 2017 Inauguration Day).

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