john f. kennedy was the youngest person to be elected president.
john f. kennedy was the youngest person to be elected president.
who is the youngest person to be elected president?
john f. kennedy
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the median age upon accession to the presidency is 55 years and 3 months. this is how old lyndon b. johnson was at the time of his inauguration. the youngest person to assume the office was theodore roosevelt, who became president at the age of , following william mckinley's assassination; the oldest was donald trump, who was old at his inauguration. the youngest person to be elected president was john f. kennedy, at of age on election day; the oldest was ronald reagan, who was old at the time of his election to a second term.
list of presidents of the united states by age
the youngest person to be executed in the 20th century was george stinney, electrocuted in south carolina at the age of 14 on june 16, 1944. the second youngest person to be executed in the 20th century was fortune ferguson in 1927 for rape in florida. the youngest person ever to be sentenced to death in the united states was james arcene, a native american, for his role in a robbery and murder committed when he was ten years old. he was, however, 23 years old when he was actually executed on june 18, 1885. the last execution of a juvenile was convicted murderer leonard shockley, who died in the maryland gas chamber on april 10, 1959, at the age of 17. no one has been under the age of 19 at the time of execution since at least 1964.
capital punishment for juveniles in the united states