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How the age of 2016 candidates stack up to past U.S. presidents ...  Feb 1, 2016 ... Republican front-runner Donald Trump turns 70 on June 14, well ... George Washington was 65 years old when he retired from the presidency. ... Since Kennedy, Bill Clinton was the youngest at age 54 on his final day ... Eisenhower reached his 70th birthday three months before the end of his second term.
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Ronald Reagan - Wikipedia  Ronald Wilson Reagan was an American politician and actor who was the 40th President of the United States, from 1981 to 1989. Before his presidency, he was the 33rd Governor of California, from 1967 to ... Building a network of supporters, he was elected Governor of California in 1966. As governor, Reagan raised taxes...
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Jimmy Carter - Wikipedia  James Earl "Jimmy" Carter Jr. (born October 1, 1924) is an American politician and author who ... He was elected President in 1976, defeating incumbent President Gerald Ford ... The end of his presidential tenure was marked by the 19791981 Iran ..... This period was a spiritual turning point for Carter; he grew increasingly...
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Franklin D. Roosevelt - Wikipedia  Franklin Delano Roosevelt commonly known as FDR, was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd President of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945. A Democrat, he won a record four presidential elections and dominated his ... When the war began and unemployment ended, conservatives in Congress...
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Theodore Roosevelt - Wikipedia  Theodore Roosevelt Jr was an American statesman, author, explorer, soldier, naturalist, and ... Returning a war hero, he was elected governor of New York in 1898. ... His successful efforts to end the Russo-Japanese War won him the 1906 ..... In his final term, Roosevelt served as Chairman of the Committee on Affairs of...
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The 2 U.S. presidents who died at the youngest ages, 82 years apart ...  The 2 U.S. presidents who died at the youngest ages, 82 years apart Kennedy ... Class of 1762 founded a univ. that opened in 1825, one year before his death Tom .... Kwan After his 1955 death, his papers were given to Jerusalem's Hebrew Univ. & his violin was left to his grandson Einstein The title of this novella that won...
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Claude Pepper Dies: 1900-1989 Oldest Congressman, 88 ...  May 31, 1989 ... After moving to the frontier state of Florida, Rep. ... He allied himself with Roosevelt, thinking that the president`s liberal program provided the best hope for ... He led a muckraking congressional committee in the 1960s that presaged Miami`s current ... Pepper renewed his role as an advocate for the elderly.
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The Last Words and Final Moments of 38 Presidents | Mental Floss  Jul 4, 2013 ... His last recorded words are "No, doctor, nothing more," but the three people present ... John Quincy Adams ... I know I am going where Lucy is. ... not recorded, a friend said almost his last words were, Life is not worth living.
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William Henry Harrison - Wikipedia  William Henry Harrison, Sr. (February 9, 1773  April 4, 1841) was the ninth President of the United States (1841), an American military officer and politician, and the last president born as a British subject. He was also the first president to die in office. He was 68 years, 23 days old when inaugurated, the oldest president to take ... However, Harrison died of pneumonia in April 1841, a month after taking...
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The song of Song | The Economist  Dec 22, 2012 ... He knew death was near, and in the last political act of his life he dictated a ... How far did an assassin's bullet change China's destinyjust as the killing of ... In 1904, at the age of 22, he fell in with a revolutionary group's plan to ... more than 10% of the Chinese population would be eligible to cast votes, an...
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July 4th, 1826 - Thomas Jefferson, 3rd president (1801-09), died at ...  July 4th, 1826 - Thomas Jefferson, 3rd president (1801-09), died at 83. ... awoke at eight o'clock that evening and spoke his last words, "Is it the fourth yet?". ... 2nd President John Adams ~ Died age 91, becoming the last surviving person to .... after the Declaration of Independence was adopted, both former presidents and...
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The Age of Reagan | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History  During his two terms in office, President Reagan continued his decades-long battle ... his fellow conservatives blamed Big Government, meaning the welfare state, ... Born in 1911 in Illinois, Ronald Reagan was a New Deal Democrat in the...
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Jimmy Carter: 1978 (in two books). [Book 2] - Digital Collections  Page 1227 Administration of Jimmy Carter, 1978 July 1 The Vice President left last ..... encouragement through tax measures of conservation matters and the shift away .... June 30, 1978 Memorandum for the Heads of Departments and Agencies I am .... In 1977, 46,880 of our citizens died on the nation's highways, and the...
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William Henry Harrison - Wikipedia  William Henry Harrison, Sr. (February 9, 1773  April 4, 1841) was the ninth President of the United States (1841), an American military officer and politician, and the last president born as a British subject. He was also the first president to die in office. He was 68 years, 23 days old when inaugurated, the oldest president to take ... He was the grandfather of Benjamin Harrison, who served as the 23rd...
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Washingtonpost.com: Barry Goldwater Dead at 89  Barry M. Goldwater, 89, a five-term U.S. senator from Arizona and a champion of ... Mr. Goldwater, who retired from the Senate in 1986 as one of his party's most...
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Huey Long's Life and Legacy | Follow the Stories | Antiques ... - PBS  Feb 24, 2014 ... Just after he was married, in 1913, a 19-year-old Huey P. Long told his wife about ... It was more than enough to see him elected governor. ... During the first part of his political career, Long made his reputation as a champion of ... Huey Long didn't live long enough to complete his plan and run for president.
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Ages Of U.S. Presidents | AustralianPolitics.com  John F. Kennedy is the youngest-ever elected president, aged 43. However ... Ronald Reagan is the oldest person ever to be elected president. He was 69.
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Almost Presidents: Alf Landon (Republican/1936) | Dead Presidents  Almost Presidents: Alf Landon (Republican/1936) Alf M. Landon FULL NAME: Alfred ... AGE AT DEATH: 100 years old. DIED: October 12, 1987, Topeka, Kansas BURIAL ... Electoral Vote: Roosevelt - 523 votes (46 states); Landon - 8 votes (2 states) ... Governor in the country who had found success during FDR's first term.
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Are Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton too old to serve as President ...  I found this bit of info fact checking a comment: The youngest person to assume office was ... The youngest president elected to office was John F. Kennedy (age 43 years, 236 ... who was also the youngest to leave office (age 46 years and 177 days) when he .... Harrison died from pneumonia shortly after entering the office.
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Rep. Claude Pepper Dies at 88 Leaving ... - CQ Press Library  An article from CQ Almanac 1989 ... Claude Pepper died May 30 at the age of 88. The oldest member of Congress at the time of his death, the Florida ... for the elderly  tireless protector of their Social Security benefits and advocate of ... He traveled the nation in the 1982 congressional elections, campaigning in 25 states...
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9 Timely Deaths - GEOCITIES.ws  THOMAS JEFFERSON (1743 - 1826), U.S. president. The 83-year-old ... From his sickbed he asked, "This is the 4th?" When he was ... While lying on his deathbed, Dr. Green looked up at his own doctor and said, "Congestion." Then he took...