|
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 |
Cornelius Cole |
September 17, 1822 |
November 3, 1924 |
102 years 47 days |
Congressman (R-CA) (1863-1865)
Senator (R-CA) (1867-1873) |
4 |
Hamilton Fish III |
December 7, 1888 |
January 18, 1991 |
102 years 42 days |
Congressman (R-NY) (1920-1945) |
5 |
George F. Kennan |
February 16, 1904 |
March 17, 2005 |
101 years 29 days |
Ambassador to the Soviet Union (1952)
Ambassador to Yugoslavia (1961-1963) |
6 |
Strom Thurmond |
December 5, 1902 |
June 26, 2003 |
100 years 203 days |
Governor (D-SC) (1947-1951)
Senator (D-SC) (1954-1956, 1956-1964), (R) (1964-2003) |
7 |
Henry R. Gibson |
December 24, 1837 |
May 25, 1938 |
100 years 152 days |
Congressman (R-TN) (1895-1905) |
8 |
Augustus F. Hawkins |
August 31, 1907 |
November 10, 2007 |
100 years 71 days |
Congressman (D-CA) (1963-1991) |
9 |
John Netherland Heiskell |
November 2, 1872 |
December 28, 1972 |
100 years 56 days |
Senator (D-AR) (1913) |
10 |
Alfred M. Landon |
September 9, 1887 |
October 12, 1987 |
100 years 33 days |
Governor (R-KS) (1933-1937)
Republican Candidate for President (1936) |
11 |
Schuyler Merritt |
December 16, 1853 |
April 1, 1953 |
99 years 106 days |
Congressman (D-CT) (1917-1931, 1933-1937) |
12 |
John N. Garner |
November 22, 1868 |
November 7, 1967 |
98 years 350 days |
Congressman (D-TX) (1903-1933)
Speaker (1931-1933)
Vice President (1933-1941) |
13 |
Paine Wingate |
May 14, 1739 |
March 7, 1838 |
98 years 297 days |
Senator (NH) (1789-1793)
Congressman (NH) (1793-1795) |
14 |
Theodore Francis Green |
October 2, 1867 |
May 19, 1966 |
98 years 229 days |
Governor (D-RI) (1933-1937)
Senator (D-RI) (1937-1961) |
15 |
Earl Butz |
July 3, 1909 |
February 2, 2008 |
98 years 214 days |
Secretary of Agriculture (1971-1976) |
16 |
James Ware Bradbury |
June 10, 1802 |
January 6, 1901 |
98 years 210 days |
Senator (D-ME) (1847-1853) |
17 |
Mike Mansfield |
March 16, 1903 |
October 5, 2001 |
98 years 203 days |
Senator (D-MT) (1953-1977) |
18 |
Susanna B. Adams |
March 5, 1699 |
April 17, 1797 |
98 years 43 days |
Mother of President John Adams |
19 |
Nelly C. Madison |
January 9, 1731 |
February 11, 1829 |
98 years 33 days |
Mother of President James Madison |
20 |
Edouard V. M. Izac |
December 18, 1891 |
January 18, 1990 |
98 years 31 days |
Congressman (D-CA) (1937-1947) |
21 |
John G. Dow |
May 6, 1905 |
March 11, 2003 |
97 years 309 days |
Congressman (D-NY) (1965-1969, 1971-1973) |
22 |
Hiram L. Fong |
October 15, 1906 |
August 18, 2004 |
97 years 308 days |
Senator (R-HI) (1959-1977) |
23 |
Thomas Sumter |
August 14, 1734 |
June 1, 1832 |
97 years 292 days |
Senator (SC) (1801-1810) |
24 |
J. Bracken Lee |
January 7, 1899 |
October 20, 1996 |
97 years 287 days |
Governor (R-UT) (1949-1957) |
25 |
Marguerite Stitt Church |
September 27, 1892 |
May 26, 1990 |
97 years 255 days |
Congresswoman (R-IL) (1950-1963) |
26 |
Bess Truman |
February 13, 1885 |
October 18, 1982 |
97 years 247 days |
First Lady (1945-1953) |
27 |
Carl Vinson |
November 18, 1883 |
June 1, 1981 |
97 years 195 days |
Congressman (D-GA) (1914-1965) |
28 |
Margaret Chase Smith |
December 14, 1897 |
May 29, 1995 |
97 years 166 days |
Congresswoman (R-ME) (1940-1949)
Senator (R-ME) (1949-1973) |
29 |
Adelbert Ames |
October 31, 1835 |
April 12, 1933 |
97 years 163 days |
Governor (R-MS) (1868-1870, 1874-1876)
Senator (R-MS) (1870-1874) |
30 |
Ivor D. Fenton |
August 3, 1889 |
October 23, 1986 |
97 years 81 days |
Congressman (R-PA) (1939-1963) |
31 |
Jacob S. Coxey |
April 16, 1854 |
May 18, 1951 |
97 years 32 days |
Farmer-Labor Party Candidate for President (1932) |
32 |
George L. P. Radcliffe |
August 22, 1877 |
July 29, 1974 |
96 years 341 days |
Senator (D-MD) (1935-1947) |
33 |
Norris Brown |
May 2, 1863 |
January 5, 1960 |
96 years 248 days |
Senator (R-NE) (1907-1913) |
34 |
Franklin MacVeagh |
November 22, 1837 |
July 6, 1934 |
96 years 226 days |
Secretary of the Treasury (1909-1913) |
35 |
W. Willard Wirtz |
March 14, 1912 |
Still alive |
&0000000000000096.00000096 years, &0000000000000088.00000088 days |
Secretary of Labor (1962-1969) |
36 |
J. Warren Keifer |
January 30, 1836 |
April 22, 1932 |
96 years 83 days |
Congressman (R-OH) (1877-1885)
Speaker (1881-1883) |
37 |
Jennings Randolph |
March 8, 1902 |
May 8, 1998 |
96 years 61 days |
Congressman (D-WV) (1933-1947)
Senator (D-WV) (1958-1985) |
38 |
Alice Roosevelt Longworth |
February 12, 1884 |
February 20, 1980 |
96 years 8 days |
Daughter of President Theodore Roosevelt |
39 |
Levi P. Morton |
May 16, 1824 |
May 16, 1920 |
96 years |
Congressman (R-NY) (1879-1881)
Vice President (1889-1893)
Governor (R-NY) (1895-1896) |
40 |
Thomas J. Lane |
July 6, 1898 |
June 14, 1994 |
95 years 343 days |
Congressman (D-MA) (1941-1963) |
41 |
Peter W. Rodino |
June 7, 1909 |
May 7, 2005 |
95 years 334 days |
Congressman (D-NJ) (1949-1989) |
42 |
Joseph E. Ransdell |
October 7, 1858 |
July 27, 1954 |
95 years 293 days |
Congressman (D-LA) (1899-1913)
Senator (D-LA) (1913-1931) |
43 |
Clifford P. Hansen |
October 16, 1912 |
Still alive |
&0000000000000095.00000095 years, &0000000000000238.000000238 days |
Governor (R-WY) (1963-1967)
Senator (R-WY) (1967-1978) |
44 |
Ray J. Madden |
February 25, 1892 |
September 28, 1987 |
95 years 215 days |
Congressman (D-IN) (1943-1977) |
45 |
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) |
46 |
Milward Lee Simpson |
November 12, 1897 |
June 10, 1993 |
95 years 210 days |
Governor (R-WY) (1955-1959)
Senator (R-WY) (1962-1967) |
47 |
Helen Taft Manning |
August 1, 1891 |
February 21, 1987 |
95 years 204 days |
Daughter of President William Howard Taft |
48 |
Forrest C. Donnell |
August 20, 1884 |
March 3, 1980 |
95 years 196 days |
Governor (R-MO) (1941-1945)
Senator (R-MO) (1945-1951) |
49 |
Lawrence C. Phipps |
August 30, 1862 |
March 1, 1958 |
95 years 183 days |
Senator (R-CO) (1919-1931) |
50 |
Walter H. Judd |
September 25, 1898 |
February 13, 1994 |
95 years 141 days |
Congressman (R-MN) (1943-1963) |
51 |
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 |
52 |
Stanley F. Reed |
December 31, 1884 |
April 2, 1980 |
95 years 93 days |
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court (1938-1957) |
53 |
Susan Cleveland |
September 2, 1843 |
November 4, 1938 |
95 years 63 days |
Sister of President Grover Cleveland |
54 |
Charles Carroll of Carrollton |
September 19, 1737 |
November 14, 1832 |
95 years 56 days |
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
Senator (MD) (1789-1792)
|
55 |
Wallace F. Bennett |
November 13, 1898 |
December 19, 1993 |
95 years 36 days |
Senator (R-UT) (1951-1974) |
56 |
Thomas G. Abernethy |
May 16, 1903 |
June 11, 1998 |
95 years 26 days |
Congressman (D-MS) (1943-1973) |
57 |
Paul J. Fannin |
January 29, 1907 |
January 13, 2002 |
94 years 349 days |
Governor (R-AZ) (1959-1965)
Senator (R-AZ) (1969-1977) |
58 |
Carl T. Curtis |
March 15, 1905 |
January 24, 2000 |
94 years 315 days |
Congressman (R-NE) (1939-1954)
Senator (R-NE) (1955-1979) |
59 |
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 |
60 |
Ezra Taft Benson |
August 4, 1899 |
May 29, 1994 |
94 years 298 days |
Secretary of Agriculture (1953-1961) |
61 |
Chase Going Woodhouse |
March 3, 1890 |
December 12, 1984 |
94 years 284 days |
Congresswoman (D-CT) (1945-1947, 1949-1951) |
62 |
W. Averell Harriman |
November 15, 1891 |
July 26, 1986 |
94 years 253 days |
Secretary of Commerce (1946-1948)
Candidate for the Democratic Presidential Nomination in 1952, 1956 |
63 |
Roman L. Hruska |
August 16, 1904 |
April 25, 1999 |
94 years 252 days |
Senator (R-NE) (1954-1976) |
64 |
Martha Truman |
November 25, 1852 |
July 26, 1947 |
94 years 243 days |
Mother of President Harry S. Truman |
65 |
Rebecca Latimer Felton |
June 10, 1835 |
January 24, 1930 |
94 years 228 days |
Senator (D-GA) (1922) |
66 |
Townsend Scudder |
July 26, 1865 |
February 22, 1960 |
94 years 211 days |
Congressman (D-NY) (1899-1901, 1903-1905) |
67 |
Virginia Dodd Smith |
June 30, 1911 |
January 23, 2006 |
94 years 207 days |
Congresswoman (R-NE) (1975-1991) |
68 |
Lady Bird Johnson |
December 22, 1912 |
July 11, 2007 |
94 years 201 days |
First Lady (1963-1969) |
69 |
Daniel E. Sickles |
October 20, 1819 |
May 3, 1914 |
94 years 195 days |
Congressman (D-NY) (1857-1861, 1893-1895) |
70 |
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) |
71 |
Charles A. Vanik |
April 7, 1913 |
August 30, 2007 |
94 years 145 days |
Congressman (D-OH) (1955-1981) |
72 |
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) |
73 |
Carl Hayden |
October 2, 1877 |
January 25, 1972 |
94 years 115 days |
Congressman (D-AZ) (1912-1927)
Senator (D-AZ) (1927-1969) |
74 |
Guy M. Gillette |
February 3, 1879 |
March 3, 1973 |
94 years 28 days |
Senator (D-IA) (1936-1945, 1949-1955) |
75 |
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. |
March 8, 1841 |
March 6, 1935 |
93 years 363 days |
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court (1902-1932) |
76 |
Chauncey M. Depew |
April 23, 1834 |
April 5, 1928 |
93 years 348 days |
Senator (R-NY) (1899-1911) |
77 |
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 |
78 |
Homer S. Ferguson |
February 25, 1889 |
December 17, 1982 |
93 years 295 days |
Senator (R-MI) (1943-1955) |
79 |
John Coolidge |
September 7, 1906 |
May 31, 2000 |
93 years 267 days |
Son of President Calvin Coolidge |
80 |
John C. Stennis |
August 3, 1901 |
April 23, 1995 |
93 years 263 days |
Senator (D-MS) (1947-1989) |
81 |
Ken Hechler |
September 20, 1914 |
Still alive |
&0000000000000093.00000093 years, &0000000000000264.000000264 days |
Congressman (D-WV) (1959-1977) |
82 |
Hugh Scott |
November 11, 1900 |
July 21, 1994 |
93 years 252 days |
Senator (R-PA) (1959-1977) |
83 |
Howard Worth Smith |
February 2, 1883 |
October 3, 1976 |
93 years 244 days |
Congressman (D-VA) (1931-1967) |
84 |
Neal Dow |
March 20, 1804 |
October 2, 1897 |
93 years 196 days |
Prohibition Party Candidate for President (1880) |
85 |
Harry F. Byrd, Jr. |
December 20, 1914 |
Still alive |
&0000000000000093.00000093 years, &0000000000000173.000000173 days |
Senator (D-VA) (1965-1970), (Independent) (1970-1983) |
86 |
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) |
87 |
Don Edwards |
January 6, 1915 |
Still alive |
&0000000000000093.00000093 years, &0000000000000156.000000156 days |
Congressman (D-CA) (1963-1995) |
88 |
C. Douglas Dillon |
August 21, 1909 |
January 10, 2003 |
93 years 142 days |
Secretary of the Treasury (1961-1965) |
89 |
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) |
90 |
Margaret Cleveland |
October 28, 1838 |
March 5, 1932 |
93 years 129 days |
Sister of President Grover Cleveland |
91 |
Ronald Reagan |
February 6, 1911 |
June 5, 2004 |
93 years 120 days |
Governor (R-CA) (1967-1975)
President (1981-1989) |
92 |
John O. Pastore |
March 17, 1907 |
July 15, 2000 |
93 years 120 days |
Senator (D-RI) (1950-1976) |
93 |
Clarence C. Dill |
September 21, 1884 |
January 14, 1978 |
93 years 115 days |
Congressman (D-WA) (1915-1919)
Senator (D-WA) (1923-1935) |
94 |
George A. Smathers |
November 14, 1913 |
January 20, 2007 |
93 years 67 days |
Congressman (D-FL) (1947-1951)
Senator (D-FL) (1951-1969) |
95 |
Milton A. Romjue |
December 5, 1874 |
January 23, 1968 |
93 years 49 days |
Congressman (D-MO) (1917-1921, 1923-1943) |
96 |
Oren Harris |
December 20, 1903 |
February 5, 1997 |
93 years 47 days |
Congressman (D-AR) (1941-1966) |
97 |
Maurine Brown Neuberger |
January 9, 1907 |
February 22, 2000 |
93 years 44 days |
Senator (D-OR) (1960-1967) |
98 |
Raymond E. Baldwin |
August 31, 1893 |
October 4, 1986 |
93 years 34 days |
Governor (R-CT) (1939-1941, 1943-1946)
Senator (R-CT) (1946-1949) |
99 |
James F. Byrnes |
May 2, 1879 |
April 9, 1972 |
92 years 343 days |
Congressman (D-SC) (1911-1925)
Senator (D-SC) (1931-1941)
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court (1941-1942)
Secretary of State (1945-1947)
Governor (D-SC) (1951-1955) |
100 |
Jeannette Rankin |
June 11, 1880 |
May 18, 1973 |
92 years 341 days |
Congresswoman (R-MT) (1917-1919, 1941-1943) |
101 |
Albert B. Chandler |
July 14, 1898 |
June 15, 1991 |
92 years 336 days |
Governor (D-KY) (1935-1939, 1955-1959)
Senator (D-KY) (1939-1945) |
102 |
John G. Townsend, Jr. |
May 31, 1871 |
April 10, 1964 |
92 years 315 days |
Governor (R-DE) (1917-1921)
Senator (R-DE) (1929-1941) |
103 |
Burton K. Wheeler |
February 27, 1882 |
January 7, 1975 |
92 years 314 days |
Senator (D-MT) (1923-1947)
Progressive Party Candidate for Vice President (1924) |
104 |
Charles E. Bennett |
December 2, 1910 |
September 6, 2003 |
92 years 278 days |
Congressman (D-FL) (1949-1993) |
105 |
Cassius M. Clay |
October 19, 1810 |
July 22, 1903 |
92 years 276 days |
Candidate for the Republican Presidential Nomination in 1860
Ambassador to Russia (1861-1862, 1863-1869) |
106 |
Brent Spence |
December 24, 1874 |
September 18, 1967 |
92 years 268 days |
Congressman (D-KY) (1931-1963) |
107 |
Emanuel Celler |
May 6, 1888 |
January 15, 1981 |
92 years 254 days |
Congressman (D-NY) (1923-1973) |
108 |
Clifford M. Hardin |
October 9, 1915 |
Still alive |
&0000000000000092.00000092 years, &0000000000000245.000000245 days |
Secretary of Agriculture (1969-1971) |
109 |
Ralph W. Yarborough |
June 8, 1903 |
January 27, 1996 |
92 years 233 days |
Senator (D-TX) (1957-1971) |
110 |
John J. Flynt |
November 8, 1914 |
June 24, 2007 |
92 years 228 days |
Congressman (D-GA) (1954-1979) |