In my research
In my research for the last post on when Ford was President, I found this wikipedia page. It shows a table of Presidents ordered by longevity. It’s very interesting. The bottom two (Kennedy and Garfield) were assassinated, then we have Polk who apparently died of Cholera.
After that the next youngest to die was Lincoln, also assassinated, then Arthur, who died of a cerebral hemorrhage (heck of a way to go if you ask me). Then we have Harding who “died of either a heart attack or a stroke” (Heh, in todays super science culture we would never be satisfied with that answer).
The rest I will allow you to discover for yourself…very interesting.
Cool find. I find it amazing that Adams (no Q) is #3 on the list. 90 years was super old for those days.
Yeah, it was surprising how long a lot of them lived. Most of them had 2 strikes against them…they lived in times when medical science is not what it is today, and they had a very stressful job.
According to a height chart of the presidents (linked to from the presidential age page on Wikipedia) I am taller than all the US presidents. Hoo-ah!
Nice Don, I am 6′ 2″ and I know you are taller than me, so it’s not surprising that you are taller than them :)