Age at Father's Death

At 72 years 147 days, George W. Bush was the oldest president when his father, George H.W., died.
Three presidents were born after their father died - Andrew Jackson, Rutherford B. Hayes, and Bill Clinton.
Two presidents died before their father - Warren G. Harding and John F. Kennedy.
John Quincy Adams was the first president whose father lived long enough to see him become president.
Millard Fillmore's father was the first to live through his son's entire term in office.
The average age of a president at the passing of their father is about 31 years old.

Rank	#	President	Age at Father's Death
1	43	George W. Bush	72 years 147 days
2	13	Millard Fillmore	63 years 80 days
3	46	Joe Biden	59 years 286 days
4	6	John Quincy Adams	58 years 294 days
5	30	Calvin Coolidge	53 years 257 days
6	45	Donald J. Trump	53 years 11 days
7	34	Dwight D. Eisenhower	51 years 147 days
8	18	Ulysses S. Grant	51 years 63 days
9	4	James Madison	49 years 348 days
10	25	William McKinley	49 years 299 days
11	41	George H. W. Bush	48 years 118 days
12	28	Woodrow Wilson	46 years 24 days
13	21	Chester A. Arthur	46 years 22 days
14	23	Benjamin Harrison	44 years 278 days
15	12	Zachary Taylor	44 years 56 days
16	37	Richard M. Nixon	43 years 238 days
17	16	Abraham Lincoln	41 years 339 days
18	14	Franklin Pierce	34 years 129 days
19	8	Martin Van Buren	34 years 124 days
20	27	William H. Taft	33 years 248 days
21	11	James K. Polk	32 years 31 days
22	33	Harry S. Truman	30 years 178 days
23	40	Ronald Reagan	30 years 101 days
24	15	James Buchanan	30 years 49 days
25	36	Lyndon B. Johnson	29 years 57 days
26	39	Jimmy Carter	28 years 294 days
27	38	Gerald R. Ford	27 years 219 days
28	2	John Adams	25 years 208 days
29	10	John Tyler	22 years 283 days
30	44	Barack Obama	21 years 112 days
31	26	Theodore Roosevelt	19 years 105 days
32	32	Franklin D. Roosevelt	18 years 312 days
33	9	William Henry Harrison	18 years 74 days
34	22 & 24	Grover Cleveland	16 years 197 days
35	5	James Monroe	15 years 294 days
36	3	Thomas Jefferson	14 years 126 days
37	1	George Washington	11 years 50 days
38	31	Herbert Hoover	6 years 125 days
39	17	Andrew Johnson	3 years 6 days
40	20	James A. Garfield	1 year 166 days
41	7	Andrew Jackson	-14 days
42	19	Rutherford B. Hayes	-76 days
43	42	Bill Clinton	-94 days
-	29	Warren G. Harding	Died before father
-	35	John F. Kennedy	Died before father

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