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U.S. Presidents by age at inauguration (1789-2021)

Joseph R. Biden was the oldest president to take office at 78 in 2021, and Theodore Roosevelt was the youngest at 42 when he first took office in 1901. View the ages of all 46 Presidents of the United States at their first inauguration. 

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78 years old

Joseph R. Biden

46th President of the United States

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65 years old

James Buchanan

15th President of the United States

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61 years old

Andrew Jackson

7th President of the United States

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58 years old

James Monroe

5th President of the United States

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57 years old

George Washington

1st President of the United States

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55 years old

Grover Cleveland

24th President of the United States

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54 years old

Herbert C. Hoover

31st President of the United States

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54 years old

William McKinley

25th President of the United States

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51 years old

William H. Taft

27th President of the United States

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50 years old

Millard Fillmore

13th President of the United States

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47 years old

Grover Cleveland

22nd President of the United States

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43 years old

John F. Kennedy

35th President of the United States

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70 years old

Donald J. Trump

45th President of the United States

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64 years old

George H.W. Bush

41st President of the United States

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61 years old

John Adams

2nd President of the United States

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57 years old

James Madison

4th President of the United States

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56 years old

Andrew Johnson

17th President of the United States

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55 years old

Benjamin Harrison

23rd President of the United States

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54 years old

George W. Bush

43rd President of the United States

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52 years old

James Carter

39th President of the United States

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51 years old

Franklin D. Roosevelt

32nd President of the United States

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49 years old

James K. Polk

11th President of the United States

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47 years old

Barack H. Obama

44th President of the United States

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42 years old

Theodore Roosevelt

26th President of the United States

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69 years old

Ronald Reagan

40th President of the United States

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64 years old

Zachary Taylor

12th President of the United States

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61 years old

Gerald R. Ford

38th President of the United States

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57 years old

Thomas Jefferson

3rd President of the United States

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56 years old

Woodrow Wilson

28th President of the United States

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55 years old

Warren G. Harding

29th President of the United States

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54 years old

Rutherford B. Hayes

19th President of the United States

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52 years old

Abraham Lincoln

16th President of the United States

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51 years old

Calvin Coolidge

30th President of the United States

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49 years old

James A. Garfield

20th President of the United States

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46 years old

Ulysses S. Grant

18th President of the United States

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68 years old

William Henry Harrison

9th President of the United States

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62 years old

Dwight D. Eisenhower

34th President of the United States

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60 years old

Harry S. Truman

33rd President of the United States

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57 years old

John Quincy Adams

6th President of the United States

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56 years old

Richard M. Nixon

37th President of the United States

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55 years old

Lyndon B. Johnson

36th President of the United States

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54 years old

Martin Van Buren

8th President of the United States

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51 years old

Chester A. Arthur

21st President of the United States

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51 years old

John Tyler

10th President of the United States

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48 years old

Franklin Pierce

14th President of the United States

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46 years old

William J. Clinton

42nd President of the United States

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