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Presidents by Age at Death

Every president who has died, longest life first.

40 people

#	Person	Lived
1	Jimmy Carter 1924–2024 39th president who emphasized human rights, brokered the Camp David Accords, and built a major post-presidential humanitarian legacy.	100 years
2	George H. W. Bush 1924–2018 41st president who managed the end of the Cold War and assembled the coalition for the Persian Gulf War.	94 years
3	Gerald Ford 1913–2006 38th president who restored basic governmental stability after Watergate and controversially pardoned Richard Nixon.	93 years
4	Ronald Reagan 1911–2004 40th president whose conservative domestic program and assertive Cold War strategy reshaped American politics.	93 years
5	John Adams 1735–1826 Second President and key Founding Father who helped secure independence and shaped early American diplomacy.	91 years
6	Herbert Hoover 1874–1964 Engineer and relief administrator whose presidency was consumed by the onset of the Great Depression.	90 years
7	Harry S. Truman 1884–1972 33rd President who authorized the atomic bomb and implemented the Marshall Plan.	88 years
8	James Madison 1751–1836 Fourth President and Father of the Constitution who co-authored the Federalist Papers.	85 years
9	Thomas Jefferson 1743–1826 Principal author of the Declaration of Independence and third President who oversaw the Louisiana Purchase.	83 years
10	John Quincy Adams 1767–1848 Diplomat, sixth president, and later congressman who opposed slavery’s expansion and shaped early American foreign policy.	81 years
11	Richard Nixon 1913–1994 37th President whose foreign policy achievements were overshadowed by the Watergate scandal.	81 years
12	Martin Van Buren 1782–1862 Eighth president who helped build the Democratic Party machine and governed through the Panic of 1837.	80 years
13	Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890–1969 34th President and Supreme Allied Commander in Europe during World War II.	79 years
14	Andrew Jackson 1767–1845 Seventh President whose populist policies and Indian Removal Act left a deeply contested legacy.	78 years
15	James Buchanan 1791–1868 Fifteenth president who failed to halt Southern secession in the months before the Civil War.	77 years
16	Millard Fillmore 1800–1874 Thirteenth president who signed the Compromise of 1850 including the Fugitive Slave Act.	74 years
17	James Monroe 1758–1831 Fifth president associated with the Monroe Doctrine and an era of territorial expansion and one-party dominance.	73 years
18	William Howard Taft 1857–1930 Only person to serve as both president and Chief Justice of the United States.	73 years
19	John Tyler 1790–1862 First vice president to assume the presidency on a president's death and to annex Texas.	72 years
20	Grover Cleveland 1837–1908 Only president elected to nonconsecutive terms who championed limited government and the gold standard.	71 years
21	Rutherford B. Hayes 1822–1893 Nineteenth president whose disputed election settlement ended federal Reconstruction in the South.	71 years
22	Benjamin Harrison 1833–1901 Twenty-third president who signed the Sherman Antitrust Act and expanded the modern navy.	68 years
23	William Henry Harrison 1773–1841 Whig general elected ninth president who died one month into his term.	68 years
24	Woodrow Wilson 1856–1924 28th President who led the nation through World War I and championed the League of Nations.	68 years
25	Andrew Johnson 1808–1875 17th president whose obstruction of Reconstruction weakened protections for formerly enslaved people and led to impeachment.	67 years
26	George Washington 1732–1799 First President of the United States and commander of the Continental Army during the American Revolution.	67 years
27	Zachary Taylor 1784–1850 War hero elected twelfth president who opposed extending slavery into western territories.	66 years
28	Lyndon B. Johnson 1908–1973 36th President who signed the Civil Rights Act and launched the Great Society programs.	65 years
29	Franklin Pierce 1804–1869 Fourteenth president whose support for the Kansas-Nebraska Act deepened the sectional crisis over slavery.	65 years
30	Ulysses S. Grant 1822–1885 18th President and Union Army general whose leadership was decisive in winning the Civil War.	63 years
31	Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882–1945 32nd President who led the nation through the Great Depression and most of World War II.	63 years
32	Calvin Coolidge 1872–1933 Thirtieth president who cut taxes and federal spending during the economic expansion of the 1920s.	61 years
33	Theodore Roosevelt 1858–1919 26th President known for progressive reforms, conservation efforts, and assertive foreign policy.	61 years
34	Warren G. Harding 1865–1923 Twenty-ninth president whose administration was marked by postwar retrenchment and the Teapot Dome scandal.	58 years
35	William McKinley 1843–1901 Twenty-fifth president who led the Spanish-American War and overseas expansion before being assassinated.	58 years
36	Chester A. Arthur 1829–1886 Twenty-first president who signed the Pendleton Act establishing merit-based federal hiring.	57 years
37	Abraham Lincoln 1809–1865 16th President who preserved the Union during the Civil War and issued the Emancipation Proclamation.	56 years
38	James K. Polk 1795–1849 Eleventh president whose expansionist policies added the Southwest and Oregon to the United States.	54 years
39	James A. Garfield 1831–1881 Twentieth president assassinated months into office prompting federal civil service reform.	50 years
40	John F. Kennedy 1917–1963 35th President whose brief tenure included the Cuban Missile Crisis and the launch of the Apollo program.	46 years