Age at Death

Jimmy Carter was the longest living U.S. president at 100 years, 89 days old.
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 December 29, 2024.

Rank	#	President	Age at Death
1	39	Jimmy Carter	100 years 89 days
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	46	Joe Biden	82 years 39 days *
11	37	Richard M. Nixon	81 years 103 days
12	6	John Quincy Adams	80 years 227 days
13	8	Martin Van Buren	79 years 231 days
14	45	Donald J. Trump	78 years 198 days *
15	43	George W. Bush	78 years 176 days *
16	34	Dwight D. Eisenhower	78 years 165 days
17	42	Bill Clinton	78 years 132 days *
18	7	Andrew Jackson	78 years 85 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	44	Barack Obama	63 years 147 days *
35	18	Ulysses S. Grant	63 years 87 days
36	32	Franklin D. Roosevelt	63 years 72 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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