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# Image Name Birth Death Age Notability
1   Rose F. Kennedy July 22, 1890 January 22, 1995 104 years 184 days Mother of President John F. Kennedy
2   Maurice H. Thatcher August 15, 1870 January 6, 1973 102 years 144 days Member of the Isthmian Canal Commission (1910)
Congressman (R-KY) (1923-1933)
3   Ken Hechler September 20, 1914 December 10, 2016 102 years 81 days Congressman (D-WV) (1959-1977)
4   Cornelius Cole September 17, 1822 November 3, 1924 102 years 47 days Congressman (R-CA) (1863-1865)
Senator (R-CA) (1867-1873)
5   Hamilton Fish III December 7, 1888 January 18, 1991 102 years 42 days Congressman (R-NY) (1920-1945)
6   Neal Edward Smith March 23, 1920 November 2, 2021 101 years 224 days Congressman (D-IA) (1959-1995)
7   George F. Kennan February 16, 1904 March 17, 2005 101 years 29 days Ambassador to the Soviet Union (1952)
Ambassador to Yugoslavia (1961-1963)
8   Don Edwards January 6, 1915 October 1, 2015 100 years 268 days Congressman (D-CA) (1963-1995)
9   Strom Thurmond December 5, 1902 June 26, 2003 100 years 203 days Governor (D-SC) (1947-1951)
States' Rights Party Candidate for President (1948)
Senator (D-SC) (1954-1956, 1956-1964), (R) (1964-2003)
Colossal racist
10   Henry Kissinger May 27, 1923 November 29, 2023 100 years 186 days Secretary of State (1973-1977)
11   Henry R. Gibson December 24, 1837 May 25, 1938 100 years 152 days Congressman (R-TN) (1895-1905)
12   Augustus F. Hawkins August 31, 1907 November 10, 2007 100 years 71 days Congressman (D-CA) (1963-1991)
13   John Netherland Heiskell November 2, 1872 December 28, 1972 100 years 56 days Senator (D-AR) (1913)
14   George P. Shultz December 13, 1920 February 6, 2021 100 years 55 days Secretary of Labor (1969-1970)
Secretary of the Treasury (1972-1974)
Secretary of State (1982-1989)
15   Alfred M. Landon September 9, 1887 October 12, 1987 100 years 33 days Governor (R-KS) (1933-1937)
Republican Candidate for President (1936)
16   Albert Quie September 18, 1923 August 18, 2023 99 years 334 days Congressman (R-MN) (1958-1979)
Governor (R-MN) (1979-1983)
17   Schuyler Merritt December 16, 1853 April 1, 1953 99 years 106 days Congressman (R-CT) (1917-1931, 1933-1937)
18   John Paul Stevens April 20, 1920 July 16, 2019 99 years 87 days Associate Justice of the Supreme Court (1975-2010)
19   Jimmy Carter October 1, 1924 Still alive 99 years, 163 days Governor (D-GA) (1971-1975)
President (1977-1981)
20   John N. Garner November 22, 1868 November 7, 1967 98 years 350 days Congressman (D-TX) (1903-1933)
Speaker (1931-1933)
Candidate for the Democratic Presidential Nomination in 1932
Vice President (1933-1941)
21   Paine Wingate May 14, 1739 March 7, 1838 98 years 297 days Senator (NH) (1789-1793)
Congressman (NH) (1793-1795)
22   Theodore Francis Green October 2, 1867 May 19, 1966 98 years 229 days Governor (D-RI) (1933-1937)
Senator (D-RI) (1937-1961)
23   Harry F. Byrd, Jr. December 20, 1914 July 30, 2013 98 years 222 days Senator (D-VA) (1965-1970), (Independent) (1970-1983)
24   Earl Butz July 3, 1909 February 2, 2008 98 years 214 days Secretary of Agriculture (1971-1976)
25   James Ware Bradbury June 10, 1802 January 6, 1901 98 years 210 days Senator (D-ME) (1847-1853)
26   Mike Mansfield March 16, 1903 October 5, 2001 98 years 203 days Congressman (D-MT) (1943-1953)
Senator (D-MT) (1953-1977)
Ambassador to Japan (1977-1988)
27   Bob Dole July 22, 1923 December 5, 2021 98 years 136 days Congressman (R-KS) (1961-1969)
Senator (R-KS) (1969-1996)
Republican Candidate for Vice President (1976)
Candidate for the Republican Presidential Nomination in 1988
American Nazi Party Candidate for President (1996)
28   Alan S. Boyd July 20, 1922 October 18, 2020 98 years 90 days Secretary of Transportation (1967-1969)
29   Paul Findley June 23, 1921 August 9, 2019 98 years 47 days Congressman (R-IL) (1961-1983)
30   W. Willard Wirtz March 14, 1912 April 24, 2010 98 years 41 days Secretary of Labor (1962-1969)
31 Nelly C. Madison January 9, 1731 February 11, 1829 98 years 33 days Mother of President James Madison
32   Edouard V. M. Izac December 18, 1891 January 18, 1990 98 years 31 days Congressman (D-CA) (1937-1947)
33   Daniel J. Evans October 16, 1925 Still alive 98 years, 148 days Governor (R-WA) (1965-1977)
Senator (R-WA) (1983-1989)
34   John G. Dow May 6, 1905 March 11, 2003 97 years 309 days Congressman (D-NY) (1965-1969, 1971-1973)
35   Hiram L. Fong October 15, 1906 August 18, 2004 97 years 308 days Senator (R-HI) (1959-1977)
36   Thomas Sumter August 14, 1734 June 1, 1832 97 years 292 days Senator (SC) (1801-1810)
37   J. Bracken Lee January 7, 1899 October 20, 1996 97 years 287 days Governor (R-UT) (1949-1957)
38   W. Michael Blumenthal January 3, 1926 Still alive 98 years, 69 days Secretary of the Treasury (1977-1979)
39   Marguerite Stitt Church September 27, 1892 May 26, 1990 97 years 255 days Congresswoman (R-IL) (1950-1963)
40   Bess Truman February 13, 1885 October 18, 1982 97 years 247 days First Lady (1945-1953)
41   Mario Biaggi October 26, 1917 June 24, 2015 97 years 241 days Congressman (D-NY) (1969-1988)
42   Carl Vinson November 18, 1883 June 1, 1981 97 years 195 days Congressman (D-GA) (1914-1965)
43   Margaret Chase Smith December 14, 1897 May 29, 1995 97 years 166 days Congresswoman (R-ME) (1940-1949)
Senator (R-ME) (1949-1973)
Candidate for the Republican Presidential Nomination in 1964
44   Adelbert Ames October 31, 1835 April 12, 1933 97 years 163 days Governor (R-MS) (1868-1870, 1874-1876)
Senator (R-MS) (1870-1874)
45   Lindy Boggs March 13, 1916 July 27, 2013 97 years 136 days Congresswoman (D-LA) (1973-1991)
Ambassador to the Vatican (1997-2001)
46   Roscoe Bartlett June 3, 1926 Still alive 97 years, 283 days Congressman (R-MD) (1993-2013)
47   Frederick B. Dent August 17, 1922 December 10, 2019 97 years 115 days Secretary of Commerce (1973-1975)
48   Ernest F. Hollings January 1, 1922 April 6, 2019 97 years 95 days Governor (D-SC) (1959-1963)
Senator (D-SC) (1966-2005)
Candidate for the Democratic Presidential Nomination in 1984
49   Ivor D. Fenton August 3, 1889 October 23, 1986 97 years 81 days Congressman (R-PA) (1939-1963)
50   Jacob S. Coxey April 16, 1854 May 18, 1951 97 years 32 days Farmer-Labor Party Candidate for President (1932)
51   Clifford P. Hansen October 16, 1912 October 20, 2009 97 years 4 days Governor (R-WY) (1963-1967)
Senator (R-WY) (1967-1978)
52   James D. Hodgson December 3, 1915 November 28, 2012 96 years 361 days Secretary of Labor (1970-1973)
Ambassador to Japan (1974-1977)
53   George L. P. Radcliffe August 22, 1877 July 29, 1974 96 years 341 days Senator (D-MD) (1935-1947)
54   Bill Broomfield April 28, 1922 February 20, 2019 96 years 298 days Congressman (R-MI) (1957-1993)
55   William T. Coleman July 7, 1920 March 31, 2017 96 years 267 days Secretary of Transportation (1975-1977)
56   Norris Brown May 2, 1863 January 5, 1960 96 years 248 days Senator (R-NE) (1907-1913)
57   Franklin MacVeagh November 22, 1837 July 6, 1934 96 years 226 days Secretary of the Treasury (1909-1913)
58   Rosalynn Carter August 18, 1927 November 19, 2023 96 years 93 days First Lady (1977-1981)
59   J. Warren Keifer January 30, 1836 April 22, 1932 96 years 83 days Congressman (R-OH) (1877-1885, 1905-1911)
Speaker (1881-1883)
60   Delbert Latta March 5, 1920 May 12, 2016 96 years 68 days Congressman (R-OH) (1959-1989)
61   Jennings Randolph March 8, 1902 May 8, 1998 96 years 61 days Congressman (D-WV) (1933-1947)
Senator (D-WV) (1958-1985)
62   Patrick J. Lucey March 21, 1918 May 10, 2014 96 years 50 days Governor (D-WI) (1971-1977)
Ambassador to Mexico (1977-1979)
Independent Candidate for Vice President (1980)
63   Charles W. Duncan September 9, 1926 October 18, 2022 96 years 39 days Secretary of Energy (1979-1981)
64   William W. Scranton July 19, 1917 July 28, 2013 96 years 9 days Congressman (R-PA) (1961-1963)
Governor (R-PA) (1963-1967)
Candidate for the Republican Presidential Nomination in 1964
Ambassador to the UN (1976-1977)
65   Alice Roosevelt Longworth February 12, 1884 February 20, 1980 96 years 8 days Daughter of President Theodore Roosevelt
66   Paul Laxalt August 2, 1922 August 6, 2018 96 years 4 days Governor (R-NV) (1967-1971)
Senator (R-NV) (1974-1987)
67   Pete McCloskey September 29, 1927 Still alive 96 years, 165 days Congressman (R-CA) (1967-1983)
68   Levi P. Morton May 16, 1824 May 16, 1920 96 years Congressman (R-NY) (1879-1881)
Ambassador to France (1881-1885)
Vice President (1889-1893)
Governor (R-NY) (1895-1896)
69   William J. Perry October 11, 1927 Still alive 96 years, 153 days Secretary of Defense (1994-1997)
70   Thomas J. Lane July 6, 1898 June 14, 1994 95 years 343 days Congressman (D-MA) (1941-1963)
71   Peter W. Rodino June 7, 1909 May 7, 2005 95 years 334 days Congressman (D-NJ) (1949-1989)
72   Ralph Hall May 3, 1923 March 7, 2019 95 years 308 days Congressman (D-TX) (1981-2004), (R) (2004-2015)
73   Joseph E. Ransdell October 7, 1858 July 27, 1954 95 years 293 days Congressman (D-LA) (1899-1913)
Senator (D-LA) (1913-1931)
74   John B. Anderson February 15, 1922 December 3, 2017 95 years 291 days Congressman (R-IL) (1961-1981)
Independent Candidate for President (1980)
75   Ray J. Madden February 25, 1892 September 28, 1987 95 years 215 days Congressman (D-IN) (1943-1977)
76   Stephen M. Young May 4, 1889 December 1, 1984 95 years 211 days Congressman (D-OH) (1933-1937, 1941-1943, 1949-1951)
Senator (D-OH) (1959-1971)
77   Milward Lee Simpson November 12, 1897 June 10, 1993 95 years 210 days Governor (R-WY) (1955-1959)
Senator (R-WY) (1962-1967)
78   Helen Taft Manning August 1, 1891 February 21, 1987 95 years 204 days Daughter of President William Howard Taft
79   Charles S. Gubser February 1, 1916 August 20, 2011 95 years 200 days Congressman (R-CA) (1953-1974)
80   Forrest C. Donnell August 20, 1884 March 3, 1980 95 years 196 days Governor (R-MO) (1941-1945)
Senator (R-MO) (1945-1951)
81   Lawrence C. Phipps August 30, 1862 March 1, 1958 95 years 183 days Senator (R-CO) (1919-1931)
82   John Glenn July 18, 1921 December 8, 2016 95 years 143 days Senator (D-OH) (1974-1999)
Candidate for the Democratic Presidential Nomination in 1984
83   Walter H. Judd September 25, 1898 February 13, 1994 95 years 141 days Congressman (R-MN) (1943-1963)
84   Peter Frelinghuysen January 17, 1916 May 23, 2011 95 years 126 days Congressman (R-NJ) (1953-1975)
85   Horace Boies December 7, 1827 April 4, 1923 95 years 118 days Governor (D-IA) (1890-1894)
Candidate for the Democratic Presidential Nomination in 1892
86   Stanley F. Reed December 31, 1884 April 2, 1980 95 years 93 days Solicitor General (1935-1938)
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court (1938-1957)
87   R. Sargent Shriver November 9, 1915 January 18, 2011 95 years 70 days Director of the Peace Corps (1961-1966)
Ambassador to France (1968-1970)
Democratic Candidate for Vice President (1972)
88   Lauro F. Cavazos January 4, 1927 March 15, 2022 95 years 70 days Secretary of Education (1988-1990)
89   Edward W. Brooke October 26, 1919 January 3, 2015 95 years 69 days Senator (R-MA) (1967-1979)
90   Otis R. Bowen February 26, 1918 May 4, 2013 95 years 67 days Governor (R-IN) (1973-1981)
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (1985-1989)
91 Susan Cleveland September 2, 1843 November 4, 1938 95 years 63 days Sister of President Grover Cleveland
92   Charles Carroll of Carrollton September 19, 1737 November 14, 1832 95 years 56 days Signer of the Declaration of Independence
Senator (MD) (1789-1792)
93   Wallace F. Bennett November 13, 1898 December 19, 1993 95 years 36 days Senator (R-UT) (1951-1974)
94   Thomas G. Abernethy May 16, 1903 June 11, 1998 95 years 26 days Congressman (D-MS) (1943-1973)
95   Paul J. Fannin January 29, 1907 January 13, 2002 94 years 349 days Governor (R-AZ) (1959-1965)
Senator (R-AZ) (1969-1977)
96 Nancy Bush Ellis February 4, 1926 January 10, 2021 94 years 341 days Sister of President George H. W. Bush
97   Carl T. Curtis March 15, 1905 January 24, 2000 94 years 315 days Congressman (R-NE) (1939-1954)
Senator (R-NE) (1955-1979)
98   Bernard M. Baruch August 19, 1870 June 20, 1965 94 years 305 days Member of President Woodrow Wilson's staff in the 1919 Paris peace negotiations
WWII Director of the Office of War Mobilization
99   Ezra Taft Benson August 4, 1899 May 29, 1994 94 years 298 days Secretary of Agriculture (1953-1961)
100   Chase Going Woodhouse March 3, 1890 December 12, 1984 94 years 284 days Congresswoman (D-CT) (1945-1947, 1949-1951)
101   W. Averell Harriman November 15, 1891 July 26, 1986 94 years 253 days Ambassador to the Soviet Union (1943-1946)
Ambassador to the United Kingdom (1946)
Secretary of Commerce (1946-1948)
Candidate for the Democratic Presidential Nomination in 1952, 1956
Governor (D-NY) (1955-1958)
102   Roman L. Hruska August 16, 1904 April 25, 1999 94 years 252 days Congressman (R-NE) (1953-1954)
Senator (R-NE) (1954-1976)
103   Nancy Reagan July 6, 1921 March 6, 2016 94 years 244 days First Lady (1981-1989)
104   Martha Truman November 25, 1852 July 26, 1947 94 years 243 days Mother of President Harry S. Truman
105   Rebecca Latimer Felton June 10, 1835 January 24, 1930 94 years 228 days Senator (D-GA) (1922)
106   Townsend Scudder July 26, 1865 February 22, 1960 94 years 211 days Congressman (D-NY) (1899-1901, 1903-1905)
107   Virginia Dodd Smith June 30, 1911 January 23, 2006 94 years 207 days Congresswoman (R-NE) (1975-1991)
108   Lady Bird Johnson December 22, 1912 July 11, 2007 94 years 201 days First Lady (1963-1969)
109   Daniel E. Sickles October 20, 1819 May 3, 1914 94 years 195 days Congressman (D-NY) (1857-1861, 1893-1895)
Ambassador to Spain (1869-1874)
110   Clifford M. Hardin October 9, 1915 April 4, 2010 94 years 177 days Secretary of Agriculture (1969-1971)
111   George H. W. Bush June 12, 1924 November 30, 2018 94 years 171 days Father of President George W. Bush
Congressman (R-TX) (1967-1971)
Ambassador to the UN (1971-1973)
Director of the CIA (1976-1977)
Candidate for the Republican Presidential Nomination in 1980
Vice President (1981-1989)
President (1989-1993)
112   Frank J. Lausche November 14, 1895 April 21, 1990 94 years 158 days Governor (D-OH) (1945-1947, 1949-1957)
Senator (D-OH) (1957-1969)
113   Charles A. Vanik April 7, 1913 August 30, 2007 94 years 145 days Congressman (D-OH) (1955-1981)
114   Frank Carlson January 23, 1893 May 30, 1987 94 years 127 days Congressman (R-KS) (1935-1947)
Governor (R-KS) (1947-1950)
Senator (R-KS) (1950-1969)
115   Carl Hayden October 2, 1877 January 25, 1972 94 years 115 days Congressman (D-AZ) (1912-1927)
Senator (D-AZ) (1927-1969)
116   John Warner February 18, 1927 May 26, 2021 94 years 96 days Senator (R-VA) (1979-2009)
117   Melvin Laird September 1, 1922 November 16, 2016 94 years 76 days Congressman (R-WI) (1953-1969)
Secretary of Defense (1969-1973)
118   William B. Saxbe June 24, 1916 August 24, 2010 94 years 61 days Senator (R-OH) (1969-1974)
Attorney General (1974-1975)
Ambassador to India (1975-1976)
119   William Henry Harrison III August 10, 1896 October 8, 1990 94 years 59 days Congressman (R-WY) (1951-1955, 1961-1965, 1967-1969)
120   Guy M. Gillette February 3, 1879 March 3, 1973 94 years 28 days Congressman (D-IA) (1933-1936)
Senator (D-IA) (1936-1945, 1949-1955)
121   Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. March 8, 1841 March 6, 1935 93 years 363 days Associate Justice of the Supreme Court (1902-1932)
122   Chauncey M. Depew April 23, 1834 April 5, 1928 93 years 348 days Senator (R-NY) (1899-1911)
123   Edwin Edwards August 7, 1927 July 12, 2021 93 years 339 days Congressman (D-LA) (1965-1972)
Governor (D-LA) (1972-1980, 1984-1988, 1992-1996)
124   Harold E. Stassen April 13, 1907 March 4, 2001 93 years 325 days Governor (R-MN) (1939-1943)
Candidate for the Republican Presidential Nomination in 1948, 1952
125   Homer S. Ferguson February 25, 1889 December 17, 1982 93 years 295 days Senator (R-MI) (1943-1955)
Ambassador to the Philippines (1955-1956)
126   Clarence E. Miller November 1, 1917 August 2, 2011 93 years 274 days Congressman (R-OH) (1967-1993)
127   John Coolidge September 7, 1906 May 31, 2000 93 years 267 days Son of President Calvin Coolidge
128   John C. Stennis August 3, 1901 April 23, 1995 93 years 263 days Senator (D-MS) (1947-1989)
129   Hugh Scott November 11, 1900 July 21, 1994 93 years 252 days Congressman (R-PA) (1940-1945), (1947-1959)
Senator (R-PA) (1959-1977)
130   Howard Worth Smith February 2, 1883 October 3, 1976 93 years 244 days Congressman (D-VA) (1931-1967)
131   John Melcher September 6, 1924 April 12, 2018 93 years 218 days Congressman (D-MT) (1969-1977)
Senator (D-MT) (1977-1989)
132   Amo Houghton August 7, 1926 March 4, 2020 93 years 210 days Congressman (R-NY) (1987-2005)
133   Daniel Akaka September 11, 1924 April 6, 2018 93 years 207 days Congressman (D-HI) (1977-1990)
Senator (D-HI) (1990-2013)
134   Neal Dow March 20, 1804 October 2, 1897 93 years 196 days Prohibition Party Candidate for President (1880)
135   W. Marvin Watson June 6, 1924 November 26, 2017 93 years 173 days Postmaster General (1968-1969)
136   Gerald R. Ford July 14, 1913 December 26, 2006 93 years 165 days Congressman (R-MI) (1949-1973)
Vice President (1973-1974)
President (1974-1977)
137   C. Douglas Dillon August 21, 1909 January 10, 2003 93 years 142 days Secretary of the Treasury (1961-1965)
138   Robert T. Stafford August 8, 1913 December 23, 2006 93 years 137 days Governor (R-VT) (1959-1961)
Congressman (R-VT) (1961-1971)
Senator (R-VT) (1971-1989)
139 Margaret Cleveland October 28, 1838 March 5, 1932 93 years 129 days Sister of President Grover Cleveland
140   Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 June 5, 2004 93 years 120 days Governor (R-CA) (1967-1975)
Candidate for the Republican Presidential Nomination in 1976
President (1981-1989)
141   John O. Pastore March 17, 1907 July 15, 2000 93 years 120 days Governor (D-RI) (1945-1950)
Senator (D-RI) (1950-1976)
142   Clarence C. Dill September 21, 1884 January 14, 1978 93 years 115 days Congressman (D-WA) (1915-1919)
Senator (D-WA) (1923-1935)
143   Ramsey Clark December 18, 1927 April 9, 2021 93 years 112 days Attorney General (1966-1969)
144   Walter Mondale January 5, 1928 April 19, 2021 93 years 104 days Senator (D-MN) (1964-1976)
Vice President (1977-1981)
Democratic Candidate for President (1984)
Ambassador to Japan (1993-1996)
145   Betty Ford April 8, 1918 July 8, 2011 93 years 91 days First Lady (1974-1977)
146   George A. Smathers November 14, 1913 January 20, 2007 93 years 67 days Congressman (D-FL) (1947-1951)
Senator (D-FL) (1951-1969)