Living presidents of the United States of presidents alive at each moment in United States history: Living presidents as of ("from oldest to youngest"): There have been four time periods with six living presidents, the incumbent and five former presidents: There have been six time periods when the incumbent president was the only living president, having no living predecessors: Notably, Richard Nixon is the only person to have been both the only living U.S. president (from January 1973 to August 1974) and one of six living presidents (from January 1993 to April 1994). There have been several gatherings of all the living presidents. Below are photographs
Former Presidents Act Former Presidents Act The Former Presidents Act (known also as FPA; 3 U.S.C. § 102) is a 1958 U.S. federal law that provides several lifetime benefits to former presidents of the United States who have not been . Before 1958, the U.S. federal government provided no pension or other retirement benefits to former United States presidents. Andrew Carnegie offered to endow a US$25,000 annual pension for former Chief Executives in 1912, but congressmen questioned the propriety of such a private pension. That prompted legislation to provide benefits to former presidents. When the Former Presidents Act took effect, there were two