EXPLAINER
At 78 years and 7 months, Donald Trump will turn into the oldest president in US historical past on inauguration day.
Donald Trump is ready to be sworn in because the forty seventh president of the USA on Monday.
The 78-year-old will start his second time period as president, turning into the oldest particular person to ever assume the workplace. He shall be 5 months older than Joe Biden, who beforehand held the document for the oldest president on inauguration day in 2021.
Within the following explainer, Al Jazeera visualises the ages of all US presidents on inauguration day, together with their lifespans and years in workplace.
The oldest and youngest US presidents
Donald J Trump was born in Queens, New York on June 14, 1946, lower than a 12 months after the top of World Conflict II.
In 2017, on the age of 70, Trump was sworn in because the forty fifth president of the US, making him the oldest president to be inaugurated, surpassing Ronald Reagan, who was nearly to show 70 on inauguration day in 1981.
The common age of US presidents at their inauguration is 57, a determine that spans from George Washington, the primary president, who was 57 in 1789, to the current day.
The youngest US president on the time of his inauguration was Theodore Roosevelt, who turned president on the age of 42 after the assassination of William McKinley in 1901.
The US presidents who lived the longest
The longest-living US president was Jimmy Carter, who died on December 29, 2024 on the age of 100. He lived 43 years after serving one time period as president from 1977 to 1981 – longer than another president.
Out of the 41 presidents who’ve died, six lived to be over 90, 5 lived between 80 and 90, and the typical age of demise was 72.
John F Kennedy, the thirty fifth president, lived the shortest of all US presidents. He was assassinated in 1963 on the age of 46.
Longest-serving US presidents
Earlier than 1951, there was no formal restrict to what number of phrases a US president may serve. The 2-term restrict was formally established by the twenty second Modification, ratified on February 27, 1951, largely in response to Franklin D Roosevelt’s 4 phrases in workplace.
Roosevelt, the longest-serving US president, served from 1933 to 1945, finishing greater than 12 years in workplace earlier than his demise on the age of 63 throughout his fourth time period.
Most US presidents have served one time period quite than two. Of the 46 presidencies, solely 15 presidents have served two or extra phrases.
The shortest-serving president was William Henry Harrison, who died on April 4, 1841, only one month into his time period.
