This is a list of vice presidents of the United States by age. The first table charts the age of each vice president of the United States at the time of their inauguration (first inauguration if elected to multiple and consecutive terms), upon leaving office, and at the time of death. Where the vice president is still living, their lifespan and post-presidency timespan are calculated through .
The median age upon accession to the vice presidency is around 54 years and 10 months. This is about how old John Adams and Hubert Humphrey were at the time they entered office. The youngest person to assume office was John C. Breckinridge, at the age of . Serving only one term, he became and remains the youngest at the time of leaving office; the oldest at the time of entering office was Alben W. Barkley, at the age of . He was also the oldest when he left office.
Born on January 16, 1821, John C. Breckinridge was younger than five of his successors, the greatest number to date: Andrew Johnson (); Hannibal Hamlin (); Henry Wilson (); William A. Wheeler (); and Thomas A. Hendricks ().
Born on July 8, 1908, Nelson Rockefeller was older than five of his predecessors, the greatest number to date: Lyndon B. Johnson (); Hubert Humphrey (); Richard Nixon (); Gerald Ford (); and Spiro Agnew ().
Three vice presidentsâÂÂHannibal Hamlin, Charles G. Dawes, and Lyndon B. JohnsonâÂÂwere born on August 27 (in 1809, 1865, and 1908 respectively). This is the only day of the year having the birthday of multiple vice presidents.
The oldest living vice president is Joe Biden, born on November 20, 1942 (age ). The youngest living vice president is the incumbent, JD Vance. The shortest-lived vice president was Daniel D. Tompkins, who died at the age of , only 99 days after leaving office. The longest-lived was John Nance Garner, who died on November 7, 1967, at the age of . He is one of six U.S. vice presidents (along with Levi P. Morton, George H. W. Bush, Gerald Ford, Walter Mondale and John Adams) to have lived into their 90s.
Daniel D. Tompkins had the shortest post-vice-presidency timespan, dying just three months after leaving office. Walter Mondale had the longest post-vice-presidency timespan, dying 40 years after leaving office.
This is a graphical lifespan timeline of the presidents of the United States, listed in order of their first term.
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The following chart shows vice presidents by their age (living vice presidents in green), with the years of their vice presidency in blue. The chart starts at 35 years as it is the minimum age to be vice president.