Time After Presidency

Jimmy Carter had the longest post-presidency at 43 years 343 days.
Eight presidents died while in office.
Of those that completed their terms, James K. Polk had the shortest post-presidency at 103 days.
The average length of time a president lives after their presidency is a little under 14 years.
* indicates the president is still alive. Those presidents' time after their presidency were calculated on 20 Jan 2025.
+ Cleveland's time is based on the end of the second of his two non-consecutive terms.

Rank	#	President	Time Post-Presidency
1	39	Jimmy Carter	43 years 343 days
2	31	Herbert Hoover	31 years 230 days
3	38	Gerald R. Ford	29 years 340 days
4	41	George H. W. Bush	25 years 314 days
5	2	John Adams	25 years 122 days
6	42	Bill Clinton	24 years 0 days *
7	8	Martin Van Buren	21 years 142 days
8	13	Millard Fillmore	21 years 4 days
9	33	Harry S. Truman	19 years 340 days
10	37	Richard M. Nixon	19 years 256 days
11	4	James Madison	19 years 116 days
12	6	John Quincy Adams	18 years 356 days
13	3	Thomas Jefferson	17 years 122 days
14	27	William H. Taft	17 years 4 days
15	10	John Tyler	16 years 320 days
16	43	George W. Bush	16 years 0 days *
17	40	Ronald Reagan	15 years 136 days
18	14	Franklin Pierce	12 years 218 days
19	19	Rutherford B. Hayes	11 years 319 days
20	24	Grover Cleveland	11 years 112 days +
21	26	Theodore Roosevelt	9 years 308 days
22	18	Ulysses S. Grant	8 years 141 days
23	7	Andrew Jackson	8 years 96 days
24	34	Dwight D. Eisenhower	8 years 67 days
25	23	Benjamin Harrison	8 years 9 days
26	44	Barack Obama	8 years 0 days *
27	15	James Buchanan	7 years 89 days
28	17	Andrew Johnson	6 years 149 days
29	5	James Monroe	6 years 122 days
30	36	Lyndon B. Johnson	4 years 2 days
31	30	Calvin Coolidge	3 years 307 days
32	28	Woodrow Wilson	2 years 336 days
33	1	George Washington	2 years 285 days
34	21	Chester A. Arthur	1 year 259 days
35	11	James K. Polk	103 days
36	46	Joe Biden	0 days *
-	9	William Henry Harrison	Died in Office
-	12	Zachary Taylor	Died in Office
-	16	Abraham Lincoln	Died in Office
-	20	James A. Garfield	Died in Office
-	25	William McKinley	Died in Office
-	29	Warren G. Harding	Died in Office
-	32	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Died in Office
-	35	John F. Kennedy	Died in Office
-	47	Donald J. Trump	Incumbent

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