It’s a numbers game: Biden, 82, and Trump, 78, move up as oldest living presidents after Jimmy Carter’s death at 100
President Joe Biden is now the nation’s oldest living president, following the death of 100-year-old President Jimmy Carter on Sunday.
Despite Biden currently in power, the 82-year-old was born before all of the country’s other living presidents: Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Donald Trump.
Trump, 78, is the second-oldest living president.
He will be sworn in again on January 20, 2025.
Bush and Clinton are also 78 and born in the months after Trump.
Bush was born on July 6, 1946 and Clinton was born on August 19, 1946, compared to Trump, who was born on Flag Day, June 14, that year.
The youngest former president is Obama, who turned 63 on August 4.
Carter set a record as the longest-lived president in American history – the only former president to live to be 100 years old, which he did on October 1.
President Joe Biden, 82, is the nation’s oldest living president despite four men in office before him who are still alive following the death of 100-year-old Jimmy Carter on Sunday
The four other living presidents are younger than Biden, including former President Donald Trump (front row, left), George W. Bush (right, standing), Barack Obama (third from left) and Bill Clinton (third from right)
He outlived two presidents who served after him: President Ronald Reagan and President George HW Bush, Bush 43’s father.
Carter was sworn into office in 1977 at the age of 52.
Sixteen U.S. presidents were younger than Carter at the time of their inauguration, including Clinton and Obama decades later.
Reagan ousted Carter from the White House at the age of 69 after just one term, turning 70 two weeks later.
When he ran for re-election in 1984, he faced concerns about his age.
During a debate against Democrat Walter Mondale, Reagan was asked if he was too old to be president.
Reagan would have been 73 when he began a second term.
‘I will not make age an issue in this campaign. “I’m not going to exploit my opponent’s youth and inexperience for political purposes,” the Republican joked.
Presidents Donald Trump (left), Barack Obama (third from left) and Bill Clinton (fourth from right) are all younger than President Joe Biden, despite taking office years before the 82-year-old commander in chief
Reagan was 93 years old and died on June 5, 2004.
Carter also survived Bush 41, Reagan’s Republican vice president who was elected in 1988 after Reagan served two terms.
The senior Bush died on November 30, 2018 at the age of 94.
When Biden was sworn in on January 20, 2021, he was 78 years and 61 days old – which was older than Reagan was when Reagan left office.
And when Trump is sworn in next month, he will be 78 years and 220 days old — meaning he will be even older than Biden in 2029.