Timeline for At what point were the most current and former US Presidents alive?
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| Jan 20, 2021 at 22:35 | history | edited | Michael Seifert | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 20, 2021 at 17:43 | history | edited | user15620 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 20, 2021 at 17:01 | history | edited | user15620 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 10, 2020 at 17:48 | comment | added | user15620 | Since I'm of a descriptivist bent when it comes to linguistics, I don't really acknowledge "correct" usage beyond what's needed to be understood. If someone else feels it's unclear, I don't object to them editing it. | |
| Nov 10, 2020 at 17:36 | comment | added | C Monsour | @Gorttherobot The usage you suggest may be convenient, but it is nonetheless incorrect. | |
| Nov 10, 2020 at 16:24 | comment | added | WS2 | The one she found the best company was Ronald Reagan because he knew a lot about horses, which formed a favourite topic of conversation between them. And they would ride together in Windsor Great Park. | |
| Nov 10, 2020 at 16:19 | comment | added | WS2 | One thing you can't have is six monarchs of Gt Britain alive - in fact there is usually only one, for obvious reasons. Though between 1936 and 1972 there were two - during the lifetime of the uncrowned Edward VIII. However the present Queen, during a reign of nearly 69 years, has seen fourteen US presidents from Truman to Biden, and fifteen Prime Ministers from Churchill to Johnson. As she said during a speech at a dinner given for President George W. Bush "My job does not involve just two four-year terms". | |
| Nov 10, 2020 at 9:56 | comment | added | bof | If Biden is removed by the 25th amendment, will that get us to 7, or will Harris only be an Acting President? | |
| Nov 10, 2020 at 8:57 | comment | added | DevSolar | @CMonsour: Middle names are not common everywhere, and those "elsewhere"'s therefore put pretty little emphasis on them, to the point of the middle name of a person (let alone which nth president they were) not being common knowledge. "Junior" to refer to the younger of a notable father / son pair is perfectly acceptable in those environments. To put it differently, "Bush jr." is very unambiguous internationally without anyone having to think twice, while "George W. Bush", let alone "Bush 43", is not. | |
| Nov 10, 2020 at 0:27 | comment | added | C Monsour | @GorttheRobot The same given nameS. Bush 41 and Bush 43's middle names are not identical. So no "junior"; just use the full names (or initials) to distinguish. Richard M Daley is also not a junior. His father was Richard J Daley. | |
| Nov 10, 2020 at 0:07 | comment | added | user15620 | Google ngrams shows it was common usage for Bush Jr. when he became politically active | |
| Nov 10, 2020 at 0:03 | comment | added | user15620 | From Merriam-Webster: "1a: less advanced in age : YOUNGER —used chiefly to distinguish a son with the same given name as his father" | |
| Nov 10, 2020 at 0:02 | comment | added | user15620 | From the OED entry on "Junior": " 1. The younger: used after a person's name (†or title) to denote the younger of two bearing the same name in a family, esp. a son of the same name as his father; also (after a simple surname) the younger of two boys of the same surname in a school. Abbreviated jun., junr., or jr." | |
| Nov 9, 2020 at 23:59 | comment | added | shoover | There is no such person as "Bush Jr." If you need to distinguish between them, you can use their numbers, i.e. "Bush 41" and "Bush 43," or their initials, i.e. "GHW Bush" and "GW Bush." | |
| Nov 9, 2020 at 19:09 | comment | added | WS2 | Never to be outdone we currently have six Prime Ministers alive: Major, Blair, Brown, Cameron, May, Johnson. Though the length of service as PM varies from 10 years (Blair) to 2yrs 11 months (Brown). It starts to get more problematical prior to that due to the fact that Blair, Thatcher and Churchill did more than thirty years between the three of them. | |
| Nov 9, 2020 at 18:36 | history | edited | John Dallman | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 9, 2020 at 17:33 | history | edited | user15620 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 4, 2018 at 5:01 | comment | added | jwenting | @jamesqf the only way the dems are going to remove Trump from office is if they stage a successful military coup or if they manage to get him assassinated. I'm sure some of them are pondering and have been plotting just that, but let's hope they don't succeed, shall we? | |
| Dec 2, 2018 at 0:38 | comment | added | user15620 | How plausible gets us into politics. For Trump to be removed from office, 67 senators have to vote to do so, so it could not be a party line vote. Also, not to be morbid about it, but Jimmy Carter is 94...the chance of him lasting until Jan 20, 2021 is only around 50-50. | |
| Dec 1, 2018 at 19:26 | comment | added | jamesqf | There's a quite plausible scenario that would have 7 in a couple of years. Trump is impeached or otherwise forced from office, Pence becomes President but either does not run, or loses the next election. | |
| Dec 1, 2018 at 5:16 | history | edited | user15620 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 21, 2017 at 0:03 | comment | added | George A. Solodun | Three 8-year presidents occurred once before: Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe in 1801-1825. Therefore 1993-2017 was not unprecedented. | |
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| Nov 17, 2016 at 6:37 | comment | added | user15620 | Average age someone becomes president is around 55 and average time spent as president is 5.3, so that means most likely there are ten people alive today who will be president but aren't president yet. We probably need to go back to Trump's birthday (1946) before we can even be sure of a number as he's the oldest person elected to a first term. | |
| Nov 17, 2016 at 3:24 | comment | added | Jeff | A related question is what period were there the most former and future presidents alive. My sense is that since one becomes president usually after 50 and so far never before 40, there probably was a time when there were quite a bit more than 6, perhaps in say 1920 as many as 20 or more: | |
| Nov 15, 2016 at 19:14 | history | edited | T.E.D.♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 24, 2016 at 2:28 | comment | added | Ovi | I think it's a nice artifact for people who will see this later haha | |
| Apr 22, 2016 at 22:44 | comment | added | user15620 | I will try to remember to update the answer next February. | |
| Apr 22, 2016 at 21:55 | vote | accept | SMS von der Tann | ||
| Apr 22, 2016 at 13:16 | comment | added | T.E.D.♦ | If I could, I'd give you an extra half a vote up or so for working out the actual odds mathematically. | |
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| Apr 22, 2016 at 4:39 | history | answered | user15620 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |