During the 2024 US presidential election campaign, the age of President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump respectively became a major concern for voters.
Biden, likely in response to this concern, chose to withdraw from the race and allow Vice President Kamala Harris to accept the Democratic nomination. If he had remained in the presidential race and won, Biden would have begun his second term at the age of 82, and ended it at the age of 86.
Meanwhile, former President Trump remains a subject of strong controversy, but there also appear to be questions raised about his age. Trump is only three years younger than Biden, and will become the oldest president in US history if he succeeds.
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The Republican presidential nominee may soon become the oldest president of the United States. Brian Snyder Reuters Trump may break record for oldest US president.
In 2020, Biden became the forty-sixth president of the United States. He took office at the age of 78, making him the oldest presidential candidate ever elected. Two years later, he became the only president to celebrate his 80th birthday while in office.
After withdrawing from the presidential race this year, Trump, who is 78 years old, is the oldest candidate in the history of the United States. If he wins, he will be the oldest president. If he loses to Harris, that title will still belong to Biden.
Who is the youngest US presidential candidate?
The Constitution stipulates that candidates must be born in the United States and must be at least 35 years old to become president. However, Americans have only elected nine presidents under the age of fifty.
As for the presidential candidates, William Jennings Bryan became the youngest presidential candidate for a major party in the history of the United States when he accepted the Democratic Party nomination when he was only thirty-six years old. Bryan ran for the Democratic nomination in 1896 but was defeated by William McKinley, who became the 25th president. The third is to be assassinated.
Ahead of the 2024 election, businessman Vivek Ramaswamy sought the Republican nomination at age 38 but dropped out of the race after the Iowa primary.
The youngest and oldest presidents in US history
The youngest person to be elected President of the United States is Theodore Roosevelt, who was 42 years and 10 months old at the time of his inauguration. He is followed by John F. Kennedy (43 years old), Bill Clinton (46 years old), Ulysses S. Grant (46 years old), and Barack Obama (47 years old).
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As mentioned, President Biden is the oldest president in the country’s history, having taken office at the age of 78. In second place is Trump, who was 70 when he took office as the 45th president in January 2017.
The third-oldest president of the American Federation is Ronald Reagan. He was 69 years old when he took office. He was followed by William Henry Harrison, who became the ninth president at the age of 68, and James Buchanan, who was 65 when he took office in 1857.
