Every president since Lincoln’s death was alive at the same time as Herbert Hoover.

Undated portrait of former U.S. President Herbert Hoover
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Author Michael Nordine
November 3, 2026

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Herbert Hoover isn’t remembered as one of America’s greatest leaders, having served only a single term (1929-1933) dominated by the Great Depression, but he did provide an unexpected link between himself and 28 other commanders in chief. 

Every U.S. president since Abraham Lincoln’s death was alive at the same time as Hoover, who was born on August 10, 1874, nine years after the 16th president’s assassination, and died at the age of 90 on October 20, 1964. The presidents who overlapped with Hoover’s long lifespan include everyone from Lincoln’s successor, Andrew Johnson, who died in 1875, to Barack Obama, who was born in 1961, the most recent birth year of any president and just three years before Hoover’s death.

Also on the list are Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885), Rutherford B. Hayes (1822-1893), James A. Garfield (1831-1881), Chester A. Arthur (1829-1886), Grover Cleveland (1837-1908), Benjamin Harrison (1833-1901), William McKinley (1843-1901), Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), William Howard Taft (1857-1930), Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924), Warren G. Harding (1865-1923), Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933), Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945), Harry S. Truman (1884-1972), Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969), John F. Kennedy (1917-1963), Lyndon B. Johnson (1908-1973), Richard Nixon (1913-1994), Gerald Ford (1913-2006), Jimmy Carter (1924-2024), Ronald Reagan (1911-2004), George H.W. Bush (1924-2018), Bill Clinton (1946-present), George W. Bush (1946-present), Donald Trump (1946-present), and Joe Biden (1942-present).

By the Numbers

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Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Donald Trump were all born in the same year.

In 1993, a man born in 1946 was president of the United States. In 2001, a man born in 1946 was president of the United States. And today, in 2026, a man born in 1946 is president of the United States. Bill Clinton (whose birthday is August 19), George W. Bush (July 6), and Donald Trump (June 14) were all born in the first year of the baby boom, and Joe Biden, who was born on November 20, 1942, was only a few years ahead of them. Of America’s last five presidents, only Barack Obama wasn’t born in the 1940s, and the U.S. has never had a president born in the 1930s, 1950s, or any decade more recent than the 1960s.

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