who was the oldest us president in office
Ronald Reagan
title: Bernie Sanders 2016 presidential campaign text: superdelegates (4%). After the roll call, Sanders put forward a motion to formally nominate Clinton, which passed by voice vote. Sanders would have been the oldest president to take office (turning 75 years old in 2016), the second to have been divorced, and the first New York City native to hold the office since Theodore Roosevelt in 1901. All three records were surpassed by President Donald Trump, who was 70 when he took office on January 20, 2017. Sanders would also have been the first president born during World War II, and the first Jew since fellow New Englander Joe title: Presidents of the United States on U.S. postage stamps text: ninth President of the United States, and served in the U.S. Army as an officer. A hero in the War of 1812, he was the first president to die in office. The oldest president elected until Ronald Reagan in 1980, and last President to be born before the United States Declaration of Independence, Harrison died on his thirty-second day in office. Harrison's grandson, Benjamin Harrison of Indiana, was the 23rd president, from 1889 to 1893, making them the only grandparent–grandchild pair of presidents. John Tyler (March 29, 1790 – January 18, 1862) was the tenth President of the United States title: Electoral history of Ronald Reagan text: old, Reagan became the oldest person ever elected U.S. president until 2017, when President Donald Trump was sworn in at the age of 70. Reagan ran for reelection as President in 1984, running against Democrat Walter Mondale. Reagan was re-elected, winning 49 of 50 states. Reagan won a record 525 electoral votes, the most of any candidate in United States history, and received 58.8% of the popular vote to Mondale's 40.6%. Only Franklin D. Roosevelt, in 1936, had a higher electoral landslide. At 73 years old, Reagan again became the oldest person elected to the presidency, breaking his own record title: Jimmy Carter text: Republican nominee Ronald Reagan. Polls of historians and political scientists usually rank Carter as an average president, often receiving more positive evaluations for his post-presidential work. In 2012, Carter surpassed Herbert Hoover as the longest-retired president in U.S. history and in 2017 became the first president to mark the 40th anniversary of his inauguration. He is currently the oldest and earliest serving of all living U.S. presidents. He established the Carter Center in 1982 to promote and expand human rights. He has traveled extensively to conduct peace negotiations, monitor elections, and advance disease prevention and eradication in developing nations. Carter title: Electoral history of Ronald Reagan text: belief in individual freedom, brought changes domestically, both to the U.S. economy and expanded military, and contributed to the end of the Cold War. Termed the Reagan Revolution, his presidency would reinvigorate American morale, reinvigorate the American economy and reduce American reliance upon government. In addition to this, Reagan was the oldest person ever elected to the presidency, at the age of 69 on the date of his first presidential election victory in 1980. He was surpassed in 2016 by Donald Trump as the oldest person first elected to the presidency, but Reagan currently remains the oldest person ever elected