Age at Death

On March 22, 2019, Jimmy Carter became the longest living US president at 94 years, 172 days old surpassing George H.W. Bush
John F. Kennedy died at the youngest age - 46 years old.
James K. Polk is the youngest president to die of natural causes at 53 years old.
* indicates the president is still alive. Those presidents' ages were calculated on October 1, 2023.

Rank	#	President	Age at Death
1	39	Jimmy Carter	99 years*
2	41	George H. W. Bush	94 years 171 days
3	38	Gerald R. Ford	93 years 165 days
4	40	Ronald Reagan	93 years 119 days
5	2	John Adams	90 years 248 days
6	31	Herbert Hoover	90 years 71 days
7	33	Harry S. Truman	88 years 232 days
8	4	James Madison	85 years 104 days
9	3	Thomas Jefferson	83 years 82 days
10	37	Richard M. Nixon	81 years 103 days
11	46	Joe Biden	80 years 315 days *
12	6	John Quincy Adams	80 years 227 days
13	8	Martin Van Buren	79 years 231 days
14	34	Dwight D. Eisenhower	78 years 165 days
15	7	Andrew Jackson	78 years 85 days
16	45	Donald J. Trump	77 years 109 days *
17	43	George W. Bush	77 years 87 days *
18	42	Bill Clinton	77 years 43 days *
19	15	James Buchanan	77 years 39 days
20	13	Millard Fillmore	74 years 60 days
21	5	James Monroe	73 years 67 days
22	27	William H. Taft	72 years 174 days
23	10	John Tyler	71 years 295 days
24	22 & 24	Grover Cleveland	71 years 98 days
25	19	Rutherford B. Hayes	70 years 105 days
26	9	William Henry Harrison	68 years 54 days
27	1	George Washington	67 years 296 days
28	23	Benjamin Harrison	67 years 205 days
29	28	Woodrow Wilson	67 years 37 days
30	17	Andrew Johnson	66 years 214 days
31	12	Zachary Taylor	65 years 227 days
32	14	Franklin Pierce	64 years 319 days
33	36	Lyndon B. Johnson	64 years 148 days
34	18	Ulysses S. Grant	63 years 87 days
35	32	Franklin D. Roosevelt	63 years 72 days
36	44	Barack Obama	62 years 58 days *
37	30	Calvin Coolidge	60 years 185 days
38	26	Theodore Roosevelt	60 years 71 days
39	25	William McKinley	58 years 228 days
40	29	Warren G. Harding	57 years 273 days
41	21	Chester A. Arthur	57 years 44 days
42	16	Abraham Lincoln	56 years 62 days
43	11	James K. Polk	53 years 226 days
44	20	James A. Garfield	49 years 305 days
45	35	John F. Kennedy	46 years 177 days

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