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List of vice presidents of the United States by age

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At 98 years 350 days,
John Nance Garner is the longest-lived US Vice President to date.
At 50 years, 355 days, Daniel Tompkins was the shortest-lived Vice President.

This is a list of United States Vice Presidents by longevity. Two measures of the longevity are given; this is to allow for the differing number of leap days occurring within the life of each Vice President. The first column is the number of days between date of birth and date of death, allowing for leap days; the second column breaks this number down into 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.

Name Date of birth Date of death Longevity
days years/days
1 John Nance Garner November 22 1868 November 7 1967 36,143 98y 350d
2 Levi P. Morton May 16 1824 May 16 1920 35,063 96y 0d
3 Gerald Ford July 14 1913 December 26 2006 34,133 93y 165d
4 John Adams October 30 1735 July 4 1826 33,108 90y 247d
5 Harry S. Truman May 8 1884 December 26 1972 32,373 88y 232d
6 Charles G. Dawes August 27 1865 April 23 1951 31,284 85y 239d
7 Thomas Jefferson April 13 1743 July 4 1826 30,386 83y 82d
8 George H. W. Bush June 12 1924 36,654 82y 6,704d
9 Hannibal Hamlin August 27 1809 July 4 1891 29,896 81y 311d
10 Richard Nixon January 9 1913 April 22 1994 29,688 81y 103d
11 Aaron Burr February 6 1756 September 14 1836 29,440 80y 221d
12 Martin Van Buren December 5 1782 July 24 1862 29,085 79y 231d
13 Walter Mondale January 5 1928 35,352 79y 6,497d
14 Adlai E. Stevenson October 23 1835 June 14 1914 28,723 78y 234d
15 Alben Barkley November 24 1877 April 30 1956 28,646 78y 158d
16 Spiro T. Agnew November 9 1918 September 17 1996 28,437 77y 313d
17 Henry A. Wallace October 7 1888 November 18 1965 28,165 77y 42d
18 Charles Curtis January 25 1860 February 8 1936 27,772 76y 14d
19 Millard Fillmore January 7 1800 March 8 1874 27,088 74y 60d
20 George Clinton[1] July 26 1739 April 20 1812 26,555 72y 269d
21 George M. Dallas July 10 1792 December 31 1864 26,471 72y 174d
22 John Tyler March 29 1790 January 18 1862 26,227 71y 295d
23 Thomas R. Marshall March 14 1854 June 1 1925 26,011 71y 79d
24 Nelson Rockefeller July 8 1908 January 26 1979 25,769 70y 202d
25 Elbridge Gerry[1] July 17 1744 November 23 1814 25,684 70y 129d
26 Richard Johnson October 17 1780 November 19 1850 25,599 70y 33d
27 John C. Calhoun March 18 1782 March 31 1850 24,849 68y 13d
28 William A. Wheeler June 30 1819 June 4 1887 24,811 67y 339d
29 William R. King[1] April 7 1786 April 18 1853 24,482 67y 11d
30 Hubert Humphrey May 27 1911 January 13 1978 24,338 66y 231d
31 Andrew Johnson December 29 1808 July 31 1875 24,320 66y 214d
32 Dick Cheney January 30 1941 30,578 66y 6,472d
33 Thomas Hendricks[1] September 6 1819 November 25 1885 24,187 66y 80d
34 Charles W. Fairbanks May 11 1852 June 4 1918 24,129 66y 24d
35 Lyndon Johnson August 27 1908 January 22 1973 23,524 64y 148d
36 Henry Wilson[1] February 16 1812 November 22 1875 23,290 63y 279d
37 Schuyler Colfax March 23 1823 January 13 1885 22,577 61y 296d
38 Calvin Coolidge July 4 1872 January 5 1933 22,099 60y 185d
39 Dan Quayle February 4 1947 28,382 60y 6,467d
40 Theodore Roosevelt October 27 1858 January 6 1919 21,985 60y 71d
41 Al Gore March 31 1948 27,961 59y 6,412d
42 Chester Arthur October 5 1829 November 18 1886 20,863 57y 44d
43 James S. Sherman[1] October 24 1855 October 30 1912 20,825 57y 6d
44 Garret Hobart[1] June 3 1844 November 21 1899 20,259 55y 171d
45 John C. Breckinridge January 16 1821 May 17 1875 19,844 54y 121d
46 Daniel Tompkins June 21 1774 June 11 1825 18,617 50y 355d

Notes and references

  1. ^ a b c d e f g Died while in office.