According to biographer H. Brands , samples of his hair reveal that he had lead poisoning from old bullet wounds. Jackson did make it to the end of his term but when returned to the Hermitage, his plantation in Tennessee, the white-haired ex-president was physically spent and suffered from blinding headaches, insomnia, severe pains in his side and a chronic cough.
James Buchanan, 15th President of the United States. Born April 23, , the 15th president was 69 years and days old when his single term in office ended in March Buchanan was 50 pounds overweight and his hair already had turned white by the time he took office in , but his health deteriorated even more rapidly under the strain of the job, according to biographer Jean H.
Buchanan had trouble remembering orders he had given, and he became so physically and mentally drained that he was unable to get out of bed some days, and made his advisors come to his upstairs library at the White House to meet with him.
He also suffered from hand tremors. Born May 8, , the 33rd president was 68 years and days old when he left office in January Truman, who ascended to the presidency when Franklin D. Roosevelt died in , was a diligent exerciser, who even in his sixties walked 1.
In the summer of , he became so sick that he had to be hospitalized, and doctors discovered that he was suffering simultaneously from three different bacterial infections. As an article from the National Archives website notes, the seriousness of his illness was kept from the public. President George H. Bush standing in the oval office, Born June 12, , the 41st president had reached 68 years and days in age when he left office in January After a long career in government that included a stint as Central Intelligence Agency director and eight years as vice president, Bush had a lot of mileage on his tires the time he reached the Oval Office.
While President Clinton achieved many notable accomplishments, his presidency is unfortunately widely remembered for his personal indiscretions with Monica Lewinsky, who was a White House intern at the time.
President Clinton is married to another famous politician, Hillary Rodham Clinton, who ran for president in , but lost to Donald Trump. George W. Bush, who was the 41st President of the United States. President George W. Bush spent his presidency as a wartime president, following the terrorist attacks of September 11, Under Bush, a a new cabinet-level Department of Homeland Security was created and the American military sent troops to Afghanistan.
Bush was born while his father was still attending Yale University and followed in his footsteps and also graduated from Yale. Following Yale, Bush earned a business degree from Harvard and then went into the oil business, again following the same path as his father. Former president Donald Trump , is the third oldest living American president and is currently 74 years old.
Trump continued his antics to the end and became one of the only presidents to not attend the inauguration of his successor. Before Trump became president, he was a business man, serial entrepreneur, and a reality television personality. Even as president, Trump continues to operate several businesses, including a chain of hotels, around the world.
Trump is currently married to his third wife, Melania, and has one son with her as well as four adult children. In , Biden had made his first attempt to run for the presidency, however, he withdrew from the race after a few months due to the controversy surrounding the false and exaggerated claims he made about his life.
He was 69 in when he was inaugurated for his first term. In a debate with Walter Mondale during his re-election campaign, Mr. Reagan made light of the issue of age. Reagan was 77 after his second term, the oldest president to leave office. More than a century before him, William Henry Harrison held the distinction of being the oldest president at the time, when he was inaugurated in at age Harrison, who had caught a cold that developed into pneumonia, died after 32 days in office.
He became the first president to die in office and to date, has served the shortest tenure in U. Many people may think John F.
Kennedy, who was inaugurated in at age 43, was the youngest president. But that distinction belongs to Theodore Roosevelt, who was 42 in September , when he assumed the presidency after the assassination of William McKinley.
Kennedy was all about the image and moving images. Other youthful presidents include Ulysses S.
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