List of Vice Presidents of the United States by age

This is a list of United States Vice Presidents by age. This table can be sorted to display United States Vice Presidents by name, order of office, date of birth, age at inauguration, length of retirement, or lifespan. Age at inauguration is determined by the day a vice-president assumed office, not the day of the election.

Two measures of longevity are given; this is to allow for the differing number of leap days occurring within the life of each Vice President. The first figure is the number of days between date of birth and date of death, allowing for leap days; in parentheses the same period given in years and days, with the years being the number of whole years the Vice President lived, and the days being the remaining number of days after his last birthday. Where the vice president in question is still living, the longevity is calculated up to May 7, 2016.

Overview

The minimum age required by the Constitution is 35 years. The youngest vice president to assume office was John C. Breckinridge, at the age of 36 years, 47 days. The oldest vice president to assume office was Alben W. Barkley, at the age of 71 years, 57 days. The median age of accession is roughly 53 years and 6 months, which is how old John Adams was at his inauguration.

The oldest living vice president is George H. W. Bush, born on June 12, 1924 (aged 91 years, 330 days), who is also the oldest living president. The youngest living vice president is Al Gore, born on March 31, 1948 (aged 68 years, 37 days). The incumbent vice president is Joe Biden, born on November 20, 1942 (aged 73 years, 169 days).

The longest-lived vice president was John Nance Garner, who died at the age of 98 years, 350 days. The shortest-lived vice president was Daniel D. Tompkins, who died at the age of 50 years, 355 days. In addition, seven vice presidents died while they were in office; those being: George Clinton (in 1812), Elbridge Gerry (in 1814), William R. King (in 1853), Henry Wilson (in 1875), Thomas A. Hendricks (in 1885), Garret Hobart (in 1899), and James S. Sherman (in 1912).

Vice Presidents of the United States by age

#	Vice President	Date of birth	Date of inauguration	Age at inauguration	End of term	Length of retirement	Date of death	lifespan
1	John Adams	October 30, 1735	April 21, 1789	53 years, 173 days	March 4, 1797	10,713 days	July 4, 1826	33,119 days (90 years, 247 days)
2	Thomas Jefferson	April 13, 1743	March 4, 1797	53 years, 325 days	March 4, 1801	9,253 days	July 4, 1826	30,397 days (83 years, 82 days)
3	Aaron Burr	February 6, 1756	March 4, 1801	45 years, 26 days	March 4, 1805	11,517 days	September 14, 1836	29,440 days (80 years, 221 days)
4	George Clinton	July 26, 1739	March 4, 1805	65 years, 221 days	April 20, 1812	N/A[1]	April 20, 1812	26,566 days (72 years, 269 days)
5	Elbridge Gerry	July 17, 1744	March 4, 1813	68 years, 230 days	November 23, 1814	N/A[1]	November 23, 1814	25,695 days (70 years, 129 days)
6	Daniel D. Tompkins	June 21, 1774	March 4, 1817	42 years, 256 days	March 4, 1825	99 days	June 11, 1825	18,617 days (50 years, 355 days)
7	John C. Calhoun	March 18, 1782	March 4, 1825	42 years, 351 days	December 28, 1832[2]	6,302 days	March 31, 1850	24,849 days (68 years, 13 days)
8	Martin Van Buren	December 5, 1782	March 4, 1833	50 years, 89 days	March 4, 1837	9,273 days	July 24, 1862	29,085 days (79 years, 231 days)
9	Richard M. Johnson	October 17, 1780	March 4, 1837	56 years, 138 days	March 4, 1841	3,547 days	November 19, 1850	25,599 days (70 years, 33 days)
10	John Tyler	March 29, 1790	March 4, 1841	50 years, 340 days	April 4, 1841[3]	7,594 days	January 18, 1862	26,227 days (71 years, 295 days)
11	George M. Dallas	July 10, 1792	March 4, 1845	52 years, 237 days	March 4, 1849	5,781 days	December 31, 1864	26,471 days (72 years, 174 days)
12	Millard Fillmore	January 7, 1800	March 4, 1849	49 years, 56 days	July 9, 1850[3]	8,643 days	March 8, 1874	27,088 days (74 years, 60 days)
13	William R. King	April 7, 1786	March 4, 1853	66 years, 331 days	April 18, 1853	N/A[1]	April 18, 1853	24,482 days (67 years, 11 days)
14	John C. Breckinridge	January 16, 1821	March 4, 1857	36 years, 47 days	March 4, 1861	5,187 days	May 17, 1875	19,844 days (54 years, 121 days)
15	Hannibal Hamlin	August 27, 1809	March 4, 1861	51 years, 189 days	March 4, 1865	9,618 days	July 4, 1891	29,896 days (81 years, 311 days)
16	Andrew Johnson	December 29, 1808	March 4, 1865	56 years, 65 days	April 15, 1865[3]	3,759 days	July 31, 1875	24,320 days (66 years, 214 days)
17	Schuyler Colfax	March 23, 1823	March 4, 1869	45 years, 346 days	March 4, 1873	4,333 days	January 13, 1885	22,577 days (61 years, 296 days)
18	Henry Wilson	February 16, 1812	March 4, 1873	61 years, 16 days	November 22, 1875	N/A[1]	November 22, 1875	23,290 days (63 years, 279 days)
19	William A. Wheeler	June 30, 1819	March 4, 1877	57 years, 247 days	March 4, 1881	2,283 days	June 4, 1887	24,811 days (67 years, 339 days)
20	Chester A. Arthur	October 5, 1829	March 4, 1881	51 years, 150 days	September 19, 1881[3]	1,886 days	November 18, 1886	20,863 days (57 years, 44 days)
21	Thomas A. Hendricks	September 7, 1819	March 4, 1885	65 years, 178 days	November 25, 1885	N/A[1]	November 25, 1885	24,186 days (66 years, 79 days)
22	Levi P. Morton	May 16, 1824	March 4, 1889	64 years, 292 days	March 4, 1893	9,934 days	May 16, 1920	35,063 days (96 years, 0 days)
23	Adlai E. Stevenson	October 23, 1835	March 4, 1893	57 years, 132 days	March 4, 1897	6,310 days	June 14, 1914	28,723 days (78 years, 234 days)
24	Garret Hobart	June 3, 1844	March 4, 1897	52 years, 274 days	November 21, 1899	N/A[1]	November 21, 1899	20,259 days (55 years, 171 days)
25	Theodore Roosevelt	October 27, 1858	March 4, 1901	42 years, 128 days	September 14, 1901[3]	6,323 days	January 6, 1919	21,985 days (60 years, 71 days)
26	Charles W. Fairbanks	May 11, 1852	March 4, 1905	52 years, 297 days	March 4, 1909	3,379 days	June 4, 1918	24,129 days (66 years, 24 days)
27	James S. Sherman	October 24, 1855	March 4, 1909	53 years, 131 days	October 30, 1912	N/A[1]	October 30, 1912	20,825 days (57 years, 6 days)
28	Thomas R. Marshall	March 14, 1854	March 4, 1913	58 years, 355 days	March 4, 1921	1,550 days	June 1, 1925	26,011 days (71 years, 79 days)
29	Calvin Coolidge	July 4, 1872	March 4, 1921	48 years, 243 days	August 2, 1923[3]	3,444 days	January 5, 1933	22,099 days (60 years, 185 days)
30	Charles G. Dawes	August 27, 1865	March 4, 1925	59 years, 189 days	March 4, 1929	8,085 days	April 23, 1951	31,284 days (85 years, 239 days)
31	Charles Curtis	January 25, 1860	March 4, 1929	69 years, 38 days	March 4, 1933	1,071 days	February 8, 1936	27,772 days (76 years, 14 days)
32	John Nance Garner	November 22, 1868	March 4, 1933	64 years, 102 days	January 20, 1941	9,787 days	November 7, 1967	36,143 days (98 years, 350 days)
33	Henry A. Wallace	October 7, 1888	January 20, 1941	52 years, 105 days	January 20, 1945	7,607 days	November 18, 1965	28,165 days (77 years, 42 days)
34	Harry S. Truman	May 8, 1884	January 20, 1945	60 years, 257 days	April 12, 1945[3]	10,120 days	December 26, 1972	32,373 days (88 years, 232 days)
35	Alben W. Barkley	November 24, 1877	January 20, 1949	71 years, 57 days	January 20, 1953	1,196 days	April 30, 1956	28,646 days (78 years, 158 days)
36	Richard Nixon	January 9, 1913	January 20, 1953	40 years, 11 days	January 20, 1961	12,145 days	April 22, 1994	29,688 days (81 years, 103 days)
37	Lyndon B. Johnson	August 27, 1908	January 20, 1961	52 years, 146 days	November 22, 1963[3]	3,349 days	January 22, 1973	23,524 days (64 years, 148 days)
38	Hubert Humphrey	May 27, 1911	January 20, 1965	53 years, 238 days	January 20, 1969	3,280 days	January 13, 1978	24,338 days (66 years, 231 days)
39	Spiro Agnew	November 9, 1918	January 20, 1969	50 years, 72 days	October 10, 1973[2]	8,378 days	September 17, 1996	28,437 days (77 years, 313 days)
40	Gerald Ford	July 14, 1913	December 6, 1973	60 years, 145 days	August 9, 1974[3]	11,827 days	December 26, 2006	34,133 days (93 years, 165 days)
41	Nelson Rockefeller	July 8, 1908	December 19, 1974	66 years, 164 days	January 20, 1977	736 days	January 26, 1979	25,769 days (70 years, 202 days)
42	Walter Mondale	January 5, 1928	January 20, 1977	49 years, 15 days	January 20, 1981	12,891 days		32,265 days (88 years, 123 days)
43	George H. W. Bush	June 12, 1924	January 20, 1981	56 years, 222 days	January 20, 1989	9,969 days		33,567 days (91 years, 330 days)
44	Dan Quayle	February 4, 1947	January 20, 1989	41 years, 351 days	January 20, 1993	8,508 days		25,295 days (69 years, 93 days)
45	Al Gore	March 31, 1948	January 20, 1993	44 years, 295 days	January 20, 2001	5,586 days		24,874 days (68 years, 37 days)
46	Dick Cheney	January 30, 1941	January 20, 2001	59 years, 356 days	January 20, 2009	2,664 days		27,491 days (75 years, 98 days)
47	Joe Biden	November 20, 1942	January 20, 2009	66 years, 61 days	Incumbent			26,832 days (73 years, 169 days)
#	Vice President	Date of birth	Date of inauguration	Age at inauguration	End of term	Length of retirement	Date of death	lifespan

List of VPOTUS by order of their death including cause and place of death, and interment

OD = Order of Death    OO = Order of Office

OD Name Date of death OO Cause of death Age Place of death Place of Burial President served under 1 George Clinton April 20, 1812 4 heart attack 72 Washington, D.C. Old Dutch Churchyard, Kingston, New York Thomas Jefferson, James Madison 2 Elbridge Gerry November 23, 1814 5 70 Washington, D.C. Congressional Cemetery, Washington, D.C. James Madison 3 Daniel Tompkins June 11, 1825 6 alcoholism 50 Tompkinsville, New York St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery, New York, N.Y. James Monroe 4 Thomas Jefferson July 4, 1826, 12:30 PM[4] 2 likely amoebic dysentery 83 Charlottesville, Virginia Monticello, Charlottesville, Virginia John Adams 5 John Adams July 4, 1826, 6:00 PM[4] 1 likely heart failure caused by arteriosclerosis 90 Quincy, Massachusetts United First Parish Church, Quincy, Massachusetts George Washington 6 Aaron Burr September 14, 1836 3 stroke 80 New York City, New York Princeton Cemetery, Princeton, New Jersey Thomas Jefferson 7 John C. Calhoun March 31, 1850 7 tuberculosis 68 Washington, D.C. St. Phillips Churchyard, Charleston, South Carolina John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson 8 Richard M. Johnson November 19, 1850 9 stroke 70 Frankfort, Kentucky Frankfort Cemetery, Frankfort, Kentucky Martin Van Buren 9 William R. King April 18, 1853 13 tuberculosis 67 King’s Bend, Selma, Alabama Live Oak Cemetery, Selma, Alabama Franklin Pierce 10 John Tyler January 18, 1862, 12:15am 10 bilious fever, respiratory failure 71 Richmond, Virginia Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia William Henry Harrison 11 Martin Van Buren July 24, 1862, 2:00 AM 8 asthmatic suffocation 79 Kinderhook, New York Kinderhook Cemetery, Kinderhook, New York Andrew Jackson 12 George Mifflin Dallas December 31, 1864 11 72 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania St. Peter’s Churchyard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania James K. Polk 13 Millard Fillmore March 8, 1874, 11:10pm 12 stroke 74 Buffalo, New York Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo, New York Zachary Taylor 14 John C. Breckinridge May 17, 1875 14 cirrhosis 54 Lexington, Kentucky Lexington Cemetery, Lexington, Kentucky James Buchanan 15 Andrew Johnson July 31, 1875, 2:00 AM 16 stroke 66 Greeneville, Tennessee Andrew Johnson National Cemetery, Greeneville, Tn. Abraham Lincoln 16 Henry Wilson November 22, 1875 18 stroke 63 Capitol Building Washington, D.C. Old Dell Park Cemetery, Natick, Massachusetts Ulysses S. Grant 17 Schuyler Colfax January 13, 1885 17 heart attack 61 Mankato, Minnesota City Cemetery, South Bend, Indiana Ulysses S. Grant 18 Thomas A. Hendricks November 25, 1885 21 66 Indianapolis, Indiana Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Indiana Grover Cleveland 19 Chester Arthur November 18, 1886, 5:00am 20 Bright's disease, apoplexy 57 New York City Albany Rural Cemetery, Menands, New York James Garfield 20 William A. Wheeler June 4, 1887 19 67 Malone, New York Morningside Cemetery, Malone, New York Rutherford B. Hayes 21 Hannibal Hamlin July 4, 1891 15 81 Bangor, Maine Mount Hope Cemetery, Bangor, Maine Abraham Lincoln 22 Garret Hobart November 21, 1899 24 heart failure 55 Paterson, New Jersey Cedar Lawn Cemetery, Paterson, New Jersey William McKinley 23 James S. Sherman October 30, 1912 27 bright's disease 57 Utica, New York Forest Hill Cemetery, Utica, New York William Howard Taft 24 Adlai Stevenson I June 14, 1914 23 78 Chicago, Illinois Evergreen Cemetery, Bloomington, Illinois Grover Cleveland 25 Charles W. Fairbanks June 4, 1918 26 66 Indianapolis, Indiana Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Indiana Theodore Roosevelt 26 Theodore Roosevelt January 6, 1919, 4:00 AM 25 assumed coronary embolism, inflammatory rheumatism 60 Oyster Bay, New York Young's Memorial Cemetery, Oyster Bay, New York William McKinley 27 Levi P. Morton May 16, 1920 22 96 Rhinebeck, New York Rhinebeck Cemetery, Rhinebeck, New York Benjamin Harrison 28 Thomas R. Marshall June 1, 1925 28 71 Washington, D.C. Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Indiana Woodrow Wilson 29 Calvin Coolidge January 5, 1933, 12:45pm 29 heart attack 60 Northampton, Massachusetts Notch Cemetery, Plymouth Notch, Vermont Warren G. Harding 30 Charles Curtis February 8, 1936 31 heart attack 76 Washington, D.C. Topeka Cemetery, Topeka, Kansas Herbert Hoover 31 Charles G. Dawes April 23, 1951 30 85 Evanston, Illinois Rosehill Cemetery, Chicago, Illinois Calvin Coolidge 32 Alben W. Barkley April 30, 1956 35 heart attack 78 Lexington, Virginia Mount Kenton Cemetery, Paducah, Kentucky Harry Truman 33 Henry A. Wallace November 18, 1965 33 Lou Gehrig’s disease 77 Danbury, Connecticut Glendale Cemetery, Des Moines, Iowa Franklin D. Roosevelt 34 John Nance Garner November 7, 1967 32 98 Uvalde, Texas Uvalde Cemetery, Uvalde, Texas Franklin D. Roosevelt 35 Harry Truman December 26, 1972, 7:50 AM 34 minor lung congestion; organ failures; cardiovascular system collapse, hypotension 88 Kansas City, Missouri Truman Library, Independence, Missouri Franklin D. Roosevelt 36 Lyndon B. Johnson January 22, 1973, 4:33PM 37 heart attack 64 Johnson City, Texas[5] Lyndon B. Johnson Nat'l Historical Park Johnson City, Texas John F. Kennedy 37 Hubert Humphrey January 13, 1978 38 bladder cancer 66 Waverly, Minnesota Lakewood Cemetery, Minneapolis, Minnesota Lyndon B. Johnson 38 Nelson Rockefeller January 26, 1979 41 heart attack 70 New York City, New York cremated remains scattered at his estate, Tarrytown, New York Gerald Ford 39 Richard Nixon April 22, 1994, 9:08PM 36 stroke, swelling of the brain (see Death and funeral of Richard Nixon) 81 New York City Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace, Yorba Linda, California Dwight D. Eisenhower 40 Spiro Agnew September 17, 1996 39 acute leukemia 77 Berlin, Maryland Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens, Timonium, Maryland Richard Nixon 41 Gerald Ford December 26, 2006, 6:45PM 40 arteriosclerotic cerebrovascular disease and diffuse arteriosclerosis (see Death and state funeral of Gerald Ford) 93 Rancho Mirage, California Gerald R. Ford Museum, Grand Rapids, Michigan Richard Nixon

Years with multiple deaths

• In 1826, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams died on the same day. Their deaths also mark the only time that two former Presidents died on the same day and in the same year, but they died in different times
• In 1850, John C. Calhoun and Richard M. Johnson died.
• In 1862, John Tyler and Martin Van Buren died.
• In 1875, John C. Breckinridge, Andrew Johnson, and Henry Wilson died.
• In 1885, Schuyler Colfax and Thomas A. Hendricks died.
• Although they died in different years, both Harry S. Truman and Lyndon B. Johnson died less than a month apart. Truman died in December 1972, Johnson in January 1973.

Widowed vice-presidents

• John Adams and Thomas Jefferson both died in 1826. Their wives Abigail Adams and Martha Jefferson died in 1818 and 1782, respectively.
• Aaron Burr died in 1836. His wife: Theodosia Bartow Prevost, died in 1794, seven years before his vice-presidency, of stomach cancer.
• George Clinton died in 1812. His wife: Sarah Cornelia Tappen; died in 1800, five years before his vice-presidency.
• Martin Van Buren died in 1862. His wife Hannah Van Buren died in 1819, fourteen years before he became vice-president.
• John Tyler died in 1862. His wife Letitia Christian Tyler died in 1842. However, he remarried to Julia Gardiner Tyler. She died in 1889.
• Millard Fillmore died in 1874. His wife Abigail Fillmore died in 1853. However, he remarried to Caroline C. Fillmore. She died in 1881.
• Henry Wilson, William A. Wheeler and Chester A. Arthur's wives died before their vice-presidencies
• Levi P. Morton died in 1920. His wife Anna Morton died in 1918.
• Adlai Stevenson I died in 1914. His wife Letitia Stevenson died in 1913.
• Charles W. Fairbanks died in 1918. His wife Cornelia Cole Fairbanks died in 1913.
• Charles Curtis died in 1936. His wife Annie Elizabeth Baird Curtis died in 1924.
• John Nance Garner died in 1967. His wife Mariette Rheiner Garner had died in 1948.
• Alben W. Barkley's first wife died before he took office. Although he remarried to Jane Hadley Barkley while in office. She died in 1964.
• Richard Nixon died in 1994. His wife Pat Nixon died in 1993.
• Walter Mondale. His wife Joan Mondale died in 2014.

Deaths by Century

• 19th century: 1st, George Clinton; last, Garret Hobart
• 20th century: 1st, James Sherman; last, Spiro Agnew
• 21st century: 1st, Gerald Ford; most recent, Gerald Ford
• 22 vice presidents died in the 19th century.
• 18 vice presidents died in the 20th century.
• 1 vice president died in the 21st century.

Trivia

At 50 years, 355 days, Daniel Tompkins was the shortest-lived Vice President.

At 98 years, 350 days, John N. Garner was the longest-lived Vice President.

• There are 5 days of the calendar year with more than one vice-presidential death
  • On January 13, both Schuyler Colfax and Hubert Humphrey died.
  • On June 4, both Charles W. Fairbanks and William A. Wheeler died.
  • On July 4, John Adams, Hannibal Hamlin and Thomas Jefferson died.
  • On November 18, both Chester A. Arthur and Henry A. Wallace died.
  • On December 26, both Gerald Ford and Harry S. Truman died.
• Calvin Coolidge died earliest in the calendar year, on January 5. George M. Dallas died latest in the calendar year, on December 31.
• The month with the most vice-presidential deaths - eight - is November.
• Only one vice president - Charles Curtis - died in February; also, only one vice-president - James S. Sherman - died in October.
• No vice-president has died in August.
• Between the deaths of George Clinton in 1812 and Gerald Ford in 2006, a vice president died every decade except for the 1840s, 1900s, 1940s and 1980s.
• George H. W. Bush is currently both the oldest living President and Vice-President of the United States.
• On April 22, 2014 Walter Mondale surpassed Richard Nixon as the Vice-President with the longest retirement from the office at 12,145 days (33 years, 3 months and 2 days).

Living former Vice Presidents

Fewest: After George Washington's and John Adams' service as the nation's first President and Vice President (1789−1797), there have been five other periods without a living former President (near the ends, respectively, of John Adams', Ulysses Grant's, Theodore Roosevelt's, Herbert Hoover's and Richard Nixon's presidencies), but only two without a living former Vice President:

1. between the death of Hannibal Hamlin (Lincoln's first Vice President) on July 4, 1891, and the retirement of sitting Vice President Levi Morton on March 4, 1893; and
2. between Morton's own death on May 16, 1920, and Vice President Thomas R. Marshall's retirement on March 4, 1921.

[Before Levi Morton took office on March 4, 1889, there had been no sitting Vice President since Thomas A. Hendricks' death on November 25, 1885; so, before Morton's inauguration and after the deaths of former Vice Presidents Chester A. Arthur on November 18, 1886, and William A. Wheeler on June 4, 1887, Hannibal Hamlin was the only living person ever to have served as Vice President.]

The Washington-Adams presidency of 1789–1797 has so far been the only period to lack both a living former President and a living former Vice President. During each of the 19 instances from 1812 to 1974 when the U.S. had no serving Vice President, she had at least one living former Vice President (in addition to an incumbent President who might have once been Vice President). For example, in 1876, when both the sitting Vice President (Henry Wilson) and all former Presidents had died, two former Vice Presidents (Hannibal Hamlin, V.P. 1861–65, died 1891, and Schuyler Colfax V.P. 1869–73, died 1885) still survived.

Most: When President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore were inaugurated on January 20, 1993, there were six living former Vice Presidents: Richard Nixon (V.P. 1953-1961, died April 1994), Spiro Agnew (1969–1973, died September 1996), Gerald Ford (1973–1974, died December 2006), Walter Mondale (1977–1981), George H.W. Bush (1981–1989) and Dan Quayle (1989–1993). The last three, plus former Vice Presidents Gore (1993–2001) and Dick Cheney (2001–2009), have so far lived through the entire Vice Presidency of Joe Biden (from January 20, 2009, to the present).

Notes and references

1. Died in office.
2. Resigned on this date.
3. Assumed the office of the president on this date.
4. The Complete Book of U.S. Presidents.
5. LBJ died en route to the hospital.