If he won the 2024 presidential election, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis would become one of the youngest people ever elected to the job. DeSantis, whose campaign has stumbled this summer, has been Donald Trump’s most notable challenger for the Republican presidential nomination.
Age at inauguration on
January 20, 2025
Minimum
age to be
president
is 35
Biden, already America’s oldest president, will be 82 at the end of his term.
Theodore Roosevelt
was the youngest
president at 42.
SILENT GENERATION (1928-45)
Age at inauguration on Jan. 20, 2025
Biden, already America’s oldest president, will be 82 at the end of his term.
Minimum age
to be president
is 35 years
If Trump wins a second term, he will return to the White House at 78.
Theodore Roosevelt
was the youngest
president at 42.
SILENT GENERATION (1928-45)
Age at inauguration on January 20, 2025
Biden, already America’s oldest president, will be 82 at the end of his term.
Minimum age
to be president
is 35 years
If Trump wins a second term, he will return to the White House at 78.
Theodore Roosevelt
was the youngest
president at 42.
SILENT GENERATION (1928-45)
DeSantis is one of five major candidates from Generation X, which has never occupied the White House, according to generational breakdowns as defined by Pew Research Center.
President Biden, 80, is already three years older than any other president in American history. Biden and Trump, 77, are each seeking a second term in the White House. While each is the front-runner for the Democratic and Republican nominations, respectively, the field of candidates varies widely by age
Another Republican candidate, business executive Vivek Ramaswamy, 37, would be the youngest president ever. He is the only major candidate who is a millennial to seek a major party nod this cycle.
Life expectancies have risen from roughly 47 years old in 1900 to almost 79 in 2017.
Sources: American Presidency Project. Generational definitions from Pew Research Center. Life expectancy data from National Center for Health Statistics.
