John Ingram McMorran
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John Ingram McMorran (June 19, 1889 - February 24, 2003) was one of the oldest recognized people in the world, living to the age of 113 in the United States. He was born in Goodland Township, Michigan. He was the oldest child of George McMorran (born October 15, 1859) and Lydia Ingram. John Ingram McMorran was the cousin of Representative Henry Gordon McMorran (1844-1929). In his youth, a fortuneteller predicted McMorran would live to age 111, but this seemingly outlandish forecast proved conservative, as barely one in six people who reach 111 live as long as McMorran finally did. At the time of his death in 2003, his grandson, Bob McMorran, was a grandfather himself, to the then five-year-old Logan Saxton.
After retiring to Florida, he became the oldest documented man in the United States, probably in 2001. He lived at the Tandem Healthcare nursing home in Lakeland, Florida until his death. If we assume that Moses Hardy was only 112, then McMorran would have been the oldest man to never be the oldest living man, if we ignore spurious cases from the 1980s.
During his long life, there were 21 Presidents of the United States in office, from Benjamin Harrison to George W. Bush.
