John F. Kennedy was the youngest president ever elected (43 years 236 days old).
However, Theodore Roosevelt became vice president at a younger age (42 years 322 days old) and became president after McKinley's assassination and was technically a younger president than JFK.
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The president is the highest elected official in our government. Currently the highest elected president is Barack Obama. He is the first black elected president in the United States.
A natural-born US citizen of Mexican descent can be elected President, but a person born in Mexico cannot. Article II, Section 1, Paragraph 5 of the Constitution specifies the President (and Vice-President) must be natural-born, meaning born in one of the US States, US Territories, or on a US military base. Naturalized US citizens are not eligible to run for President.
Woodrow Wilson was elected President in 1912.
John F. Kennedy was the youngest person elected president. He was also a speed-reader.
Just the opposite. At the time, he was the oldest president ever elected.
Technically John F. Kennedy was elected the youngest but the youngest president in office was Roosevelt. (Roosevelt was elected Vice President in 1900 and became President when President William McKinley was assassinated.)
The youngest person to serve as President of the United States was Theodore Roosevelt, who assumed office at the age of 42, following the assasination of William McKinley. John F. Kennedy was the youngest when elected president and youngest who died.
Kennedy was the youngest elected US president.
Theodore Roosevelt was the youngest person to assume the office of President of the United States. Roosevelt was age 42 years and 322 days when he became President following William McKinley's assassination. The youngest person elected President was John F. Kennedy. Kennedy was inaugurated into office at the age of 43 years and 236 days.
Theodore Roosevelt was the youngest American to become President at the age of 42. This was because of assassination. But, John F. Kennedy was the youngest American to be ELECTED President at the age of 43.
No, John F. Kennedy was the youngest person to be elected to the office of President of the United States at the age of 43 years, 236 days. The youngest person to assume the office of President of the United States was Theodore Roosevelt, who, as Vice President, at the age of 42, became President after the assassination of President William McKinley. President Barack Obama is the youngest living President and the fifth-youngest person inaugurated as President, at 47 years and 169 days old.
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William Howard Taft was 51 when elected U.S. President in 1908.Abraham Lincoln was 51 when elected to his 1st term in 1860.Barack Obama was 51 when elected to his 2nd term in 2012.
Theodore Roosevelt was the Vice President under William McKinley and was the youngest president to hold officer when McKinley was assassinated. John F. Kennedy was youngest president elected to office.