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Longest Post presidency years quiz
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| December 5th, 2018 at 6:55:35 PM permalink | |
| Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 | Which president had the longest post presidency ? Guess before you google. If you can guess #2 put answer in spoiler. James K. Polk lived only 103 days past the end of his presidency on Mar 4, 1849. Post WWII Lyndon B. Johnson presidency end on Jan 20, 1969 and he lived an additional 4 years, 2 days. Eight presidents have died in office and had no post presidency. The most improbable bit of presidential trivia is that three of the five founding fathers: Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, James Monroe all died on 4 July. I suspect "fake news". |
| December 5th, 2018 at 7:25:10 PM permalink | |
| Ayecarumba Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 89 Posts: 1744 | Didn’t 2 of the July 4th ex-presidents die on the same day? |
| December 5th, 2018 at 7:40:41 PM permalink | |
| Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 |
yes, and the third died 5 years later (I think). Age at end of Presidency 35 --- 46 years, 177 days --- John F. Kennedy 20 --- 49 years, 304 days --- James A. Garfield 26 --- 50 years, 128 days --- Theodore Roosevelt 22 --- 51 years, 351 days --- Grover Cleveland ~ first term 14 --- 52 years, 101 days --- Franklin Pierce 13 --- 53 years, 56 days --- Millard Fillmore 11 --- 53 years, 122 days --- James K. Polk 42 --- 54 years, 154 days --- Bill Clinton 18 --- 54 years, 311 days --- Ulysses S. Grant 10 --- 54 years, 340 days --- John Tyler 21 --- 55 years, 150 days --- Chester A. Arthur 44 --- 55 years, 169 days --- Barack Obama 27 --- 55 years, 170 days --- William H. Taft 16 --- 56 years, 62 days --- Abraham Lincoln 39 --- 56 years, 111 days --- Jimmy Carter 30 --- 56 years, 243 days --- Calvin Coolidge 29 --- 57 years, 273 days --- Warren G. Harding 8 --- 58 years, 89 days --- Martin Van Buren 19 --- 58 years, 151 days --- Rutherford B. Hayes 31 --- 58 years, 206 days --- Herbert Hoover 25 --- 58 years, 228 days --- William McKinley 23 --- 59 years, 196 days --- Benjamin Harrison 24 --- 59 years, 351 days --- Grover Cleveland ~ second nonsequential term 17 --- 60 years, 65 days --- Andrew Johnson 36 --- 60 years, 146 days --- Lyndon B. Johnson 37 --- 61 years, 212 days --- Richard Nixon 6 --- 61 years, 236 days --- John Quincy Adams 43 --- 62 years, 198 days --- George W. Bush 32 --- 63 years, 72 days --- Franklin D. Roosevelt 38 --- 63 years, 190 days --- Gerald Ford 28 --- 64 years, 66 days --- Woodrow Wilson 1 --- 65 years, 10 days --- George Washington 2 --- 65 years, 125 days --- John Adams 12 --- 65 years, 227 days --- Zachary Taylor 3 --- 65 years, 325 days --- Thomas Jefferson 4 --- 65 years, 353 days --- James Madison 5 --- 66 years, 310 days --- James Monroe 9 --- 68 years, 54 days --- William Henry Harrison 41 --- 68 years, 222 days --- George H. W. Bush 33 --- 68 years, 257 days --- Harry S. Truman 15 --- 69 years, 315 days --- James Buchanan 7 --- 69 years, 354 days --- Andrew Jackson 34 --- 70 years, 98 days --- Dwight D. Eisenhower 40 --- 77 years, 349 days --- Ronald Reagan 45 --- --- Donald Trump |
| December 6th, 2018 at 2:12:11 AM permalink | |
| AZDuffman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 135 Posts: 18204 |
No need to guess when you know the answer. lol The President is a fink. |
| December 6th, 2018 at 3:37:36 AM permalink | |
| odiousgambit Member since: Oct 28, 2012 Threads: 154 Posts: 5098 | usually you prove it, but maybe you're saying you looked it up I want to say Calvin Coolidge even though he died in his 50s. On the other hand, just looking at the age at death isn't given me any inspiration, so I'll stick with Calvin C. I'm Still Standing, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah [it's an old guy chant for me] |
| December 6th, 2018 at 4:25:02 AM permalink | |
| AZDuffman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 135 Posts: 18204 |
Can't really prove it. Lets just say I heard it in passing sometime the last year or so I don't even remember where. The President is a fink. |
| December 6th, 2018 at 8:28:56 AM permalink | |
| Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 |
You get peppered with this POTUS trivia from time to time on the news. George Washington died less than 3 years after leaving office which has led some to speculate that he didn't really feel honor bound to leave the presidency after two terms, but instead he just was sick. The 2nd and 3rd president both died on 4th of July 1826. But John Adams finished his only term 8 years before Thomas Jefferson finished his second term, so John Adams actually set the record for "length of post presidency" which held for over a century. |
| December 8th, 2018 at 1:10:15 AM permalink | |
| Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 | Here is the full list of length of post-presidency 39 • Jimmy Carter 37 years, 322 days --------------------------------------------------- 31 • Herbert Hoover 31 years, 230 days 38 • Gerald Ford 29 years, 340 days 41 • George H. W. Bush 25 years, 314 days 2 • John Adams 25 years, 122 days (held the record until the 1950's when Herbert Hoover passed him) 8 • Martin Van Buren 21 years, 142 days 13 • Millard Fillmore 21 years, 4 days 33 • Harry S. Truman 19 years, 341 days 37 • Richard Nixon 19 years, 256 days 4 • James Madison 19 years, 116 days 6 • John Quincy Adams 18 years, 356 days 42 • Bill Clinton 17 years, 322 days ------------------------------------------- 3 • Thomas Jefferson 17 years, 122 days 27 • William H. Taft 17 years, 4 days 10 • John Tyler 16 years, 320 days 40 • Ronald Reagan 15 years, 137 days 14 • Franklin Pierce 12 years, 218 days 19 • Rutherford B. Hayes 11 years, 319 days 24 • Grover Cleveland 11 years, 112 days * 22 • Grover Cleveland 4 years, 0 days (until he was re-elected as POTUS #24) 43 • George W. Bush 9 years, 322 days ----------------------------------- 26 • Theodore Roosevelt 9 years, 308 days 18 • Ulysses S. Grant 8 years, 141 days 7 • Andrew Jackson 8 years, 96 days 34 • Dwight D. Eisenhower 8 years, 67 days 23 • Benjamin Harrison 8 years, 9 days 15 • James Buchanan 7 years, 89 days 17 • Andrew Johnson 6 years, 149 days 5 • James Monroe 6 years, 122 days 36 • Lyndon B. Johnson 4 years, 2 days 30 • Calvin Coolidge 3 years, 307 days 28 • Woodrow Wilson 2 years, 336 days 1 • George Washington 2 years, 285 days 44 • Barack Obama 1 year, 322 days ----------------------------------- 21 • Chester A. Arthur 1 year, 259 days 11 • James K. Polk 103 days 32 • Franklin D. Roosevelt 0 days 25 • William McKinley 0 days 16 • Abraham Lincoln 0 days 35 • John F. Kennedy 0 days 29 • Warren G. Harding 0 days 12 • Zachary Taylor 0 days 20 • James A. Garfield 0 days 9 • William Henry Harrison 0 days John Adams also held the record as longest lived president until the year 2000 (only one to live past age of 90) when he was passed by Ronald Reagan The age at end of Presidency for the living presidents is very close, so it is impossible to say which POTUS will have the longest ex-presidency when they all die 42 --- 54 years, 154 days --- Bill Clinton 44 --- 55 years, 169 days --- Barack Obama 39 --- 56 years, 111 days --- Jimmy Carter 43 --- 62 years, 198 days --- George W. Bush |