How old is too old to be POTUS … or is it a cognitive thing?
Posted By RichC on July 6, 2024
Reading “view from the right” on TheHustings.news this week has me wondering if our presidential candidates are getting too old … or if age is not the factor, perhaps having candidates pass the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) would be helpful?
Retirement Ages — by Stephen Macaulay
Here’s something for your July 4th distraction, a list of the presidents of the United States and their ages when they left office:
1. George Washington (65 years, 10 days)
2. John Adams (65 years, 125 days)
3. Thomas Jefferson (65 years, 325 days)
4. James Madison (65 years, 353 days)
5. James Monroe (66 years, 310 days)
6. John Quincy Adams (61 years, 236 days)
7. Andrew Jackson (69 years, 354 days)
8. Martin Van Buren (58 years, 89 days)
9. William Henry Harrison (68 years, 23 days)
10. John Tyler (53 years, 291 days)
11. James K. Polk (53 years, 225 days)
12. Zachary Taylor (65 years, 227 days)
13. Millard Fillmore (53 years, 56 days)
14. Franklin Pierce (52 years, 101 days)
15. James Buchanan (69 years, 315 days)
16. Abraham Lincoln (56 years, 62 days)
17. Andrew Johnson (66 years, 212 days)
18. Ulysses S. Grant (58 years, 311 days)
19. Rutherford B. Hayes (57 years, 292 days)
20. James A. Garfield (49 years, 105 days
21. Chester A. Arthur (56 years, 159 days)
22. Grover Cleveland (51 years, 351 days)
23. Benjamin Harrison (60 years, 128 days)
24. Grover Cleveland (60 years, 185 days)
25. William McKinley (58 years, 228 days)
26. Theodore Roosevelt (50 years, 128 days)
27. William Howard Taft (55 years, 170 days)
28. Woodrow Wilson (67 years, 37 days)
29. Warren G. Harding (57 years, 273 days)
30. Calvin Coolidge (54 years, 206 days)
31. Herbert Hoover (58 years, 86 days)
32. Franklin D. Roosevelt (63 years, 72 days)
33. Harry S. Truman (68 years, 37 days)
34. Dwight D. Eisenhower (70 years, 98 days)
35. John F. Kennedy (46 years, 177 days)
36. Lyndon B. Johnson (60 years, 146 days)
37. Richard M. Nixon (61 years, 198 days)
38. Gerald R. Ford (63 years, 165 days)
39. Jimmy Carter (56 years, 111 days)
40. Ronald Reagan (77 years, 349 days)
41. George H. W. Bush (68 years, 222 days)
42. Bill Clinton (54 years, 154 days)
43. George W. Bush (62 years, 198 days)
44. Barack Obama (55 years, 355 days)
45. Donald J. Trump (74 years, 220 days
And as a bonus:
46. Joe Biden when he was inaugurated: 78 years, 61 days
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