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In 1972, Linda Jenness ran for president of the United States, although she was 31 at the time. Many youth rights groups view current age of candidacy requirements as unjustified age discrimination. [2]
The US has historically had minimum age requirements for many positions, ranging from President to local members of city council. While there is no maximum age limit or point of forced retirement—other countries like Canada enforce retirement ages on judges [ 1 ] and senators [ 2 ] —there are term limits in some cases, most notably a limit ...
A candidate must be at least 35 years of age. No person can be elected as president of the United States more than twice, and a person who has served as president for more than two years of a term to which another person was elected president (i.e. due to the elected president's death, resignation, or removal by impeachment) cannot be elected ...
To run for president a candidate must be at least 35 years old. But there’s no upper age limit for the U.S. presidency. Trump is 78 and Biden is 81.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s recent freezing episodes have renewed questions around the health of some of America’s oldest and most powerful elected officials on both sides of the ...
On November 16, 2010, Texas state representative Leo Berman introduced legislation requiring any candidate for president or vice president running in Texas to submit to the Texas Secretary of State an "original birth certificate indicating that the person is a natural-born United States citizen." In introducing the bill, Berman said that the ...
Seventy-six percent of respondents said there should “be a maximum age for someone in the U.S. to serve as” president in the survey. A similar percentage said there… 76 percent in new poll ...
The median age at inauguration of incoming U.S. presidents is 55 years. [1] [2] The youngest person to become U.S. president was Theodore Roosevelt at age 42, who succeeded to the office after the assassination of William McKinley. [1] The oldest person inaugurated president is Donald Trump, at age 78 years, 7 months, for his second term. [1] [3]