Lifespan of US Presidents - Graphical Timeline

This video is a graphical lifespan timeline of the presidents of the United States (living presidents in green). They are listed in order of office, with Grover Cleveland listed in the order of his first presidency.

POTUS age
The youngest person to assume the presidency was Theodore Roosevelt, who, at the age of 42, succeeded to the office after the assassination of William McKinley. The youngest to become president by election was John F. Kennedy, who was inaugurated at age 43. The oldest person to assume the presidency was Joe Biden, who took the presidential oath of office 61 days after turning 78.

Assassinated at age 46, John F. Kennedy was the youngest president at the end of his tenure, and his lifespan was the shortest of any president. At age 50, Theodore Roosevelt was the youngest person to become a former president. The oldest president at the end of his tenure was Ronald Reagan at 77; this distinction will eventually devolve upon Joe Biden, who was older when he took office than Reagan was when he left office. Biden was born before four of his predecessors: Donald Trump, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.

James K. Polk had the shortest retirement of any president, dying barely three months after leaving office at age 53 (the youngest president to die of natural causes). Jimmy Carter's retirement, now 41 years, is the longest in American presidential history. At age 97, Jimmy Carter is also the oldest living president as well as the nation's longest-lived president. He is one of six U.S. presidents (along with John Adams, Herbert Hoover, Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford and George H. W. Bush) to have lived into their 90s. The youngest living president is Barack Obama, age 60.

Sources:
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Wikipedia

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0:00 Introduction
2:46 Abraham Lincoln
3:45 24. Grover Cleveland
4:25 Theodore Roosevelt
5:15 Herbert Hoover
5:56 John F. Kennedy
6:36 Jimmy Carter

[ladygrey]

Some of these POTUS were born in the Era when horses and gaslight were ubiquitous, and lived until well into the age of nuclear power and the first jets and computers. It's absolutely mind-boggling just how far we've come in a century and a half.

[kengwengloke]

Can't believe that John Adam hold the record for the longest living president until Ronald Reagan past his record. Holding a record for nearly 2 century.

[chadbrisco]

Anyone realize that Joe Biden right now is older than the previous 4 presidents including Bill Clinton who was elected to office 30 years ago. Damn, he's an old ass president.

[octoberboiy]

I can’t believe Carter is almost 100 and beat cancer more than once… what a trooper!!!

[KingMagenta]

I felt like the graph could have used the bottom bar that we see at the end to continuously scroll down to indicate the rough year each president is currently in. Once we got to FDR my wife had a rough sense of the time but for visuals it would be better. Also maybe a final zoom-out of the data to show off some of the cool details people have pointed out here, with the overlapping of certain presidential timelines. Great video and very detailed! Good job

[edwardcricchio]

Here's a fun fact. Rutherford Hayes born in 1822 and died in 1893, was alive at the same time as Presidents John Adams through Dwight Eisenhower. That is the record.

[tonymontana]

It is just surprising that Jimmy Carter, who was president at the same moment Leonid Brezhnev was General Secretary of the USSR, is still alive. It is interesting how long will he manage to live.

[lordruperteverton]

Crazy that both John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died on the EXACT same day (July 4th, 1826) EXACTLY 50 years after the United States gained independence

[decentish]

It’s so weird to me that Herbert Hoover outlived Kennedy. In fact he was still active in politics at the time and defended Kennedy’s actions in the failed bay of pigs invasion.

[Cooper-kuqh]

Fun fact John Tyler still has a living grandson and he was the 10th president our country is not that old

[DSAhmed]

Lets hear it for Jimmy Carter. That man will live forever.

[SupremeLeaderKimJong-un]

Lifespan of DPRK leaders:
1. Kim Il-sung (Great Leader) - born in 1912 (on the same day the Titanic hit the iceberg) and passed in 1994; was 36 when the country was founded
2. Kim Jong-il (Dear Leader) - born in 1942 and passed in 2011; was 52 when he became leader in 1994
3. Kim Jong-un (Supreme Leader) - born in 1983; I was 28 when I became leader in 2011

[soupstarsandsilence]

Sad that Washington got so little time in retirement before dying. Mans deserved more peaceful days.

[canadagoose]

Top ten longest presidential retirements:
1. Jimmy Carter: 41+ yrs
2. Herbert Hoover: 31 yrs, 230 days
3. Gerald Ford: 29 yrs, 340 days
4. George H.W. Bush: 25 yrs, 314 days
5. John Adams: 25 yrs, 122 days
6. Bill Clinton: 21+ yrs
7. Martin Van Buren: 21 yrs, 142 days
8. Millard Fillmore: 21 yrs, 4 days
9. Harry S. Truman: 19 yrs, 341 days
10. Richard Nixon: 19 yrs, 256 days

[jaystark]

Not much to add except that I just watched a very well-lit together video. Thanks a lot!

[centexan]

Even though most of them seem to age a lot while in office, they seem to still live good, long lives.

[morbidsearch]

James Polk was in between two terms with presidents who died in office and came very close to being one himself

[blakepeanutbudderman]

Jimmy Carter was born before William Taft died. William Taft was born before James Buchanan died. James Buchanan was born before George Washington died.

That's the shortest chain of overlap I found.

[Klako-lsyt]

John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died on the same day: July 4th, 1826 (coincidentally, the 50th anniversary of US Independence). Adams’s last words were “Thomas Jefferson survives”, not knowing that Jefferson had died a few hours earlier.

[cremexj]

Love this video do more of other countries. And like elections each year and possibly kid photos then president photos.