(CNN Spanish) — If the United States re-elects President Joe Biden in the 2024 elections, the president will be 86 years old at the end of his second term at the helm of the country.
Biden, who turned 80 in November 2022, holds the Guinness record for the oldest person to be elected president of the United States: he took office on January 20, 2021 at 78 years and 61 days.
Upon reaching the presidency, the Democrat surpassed his immediate predecessor, Donald Trump, by this mark, who had held the Guinness record for the oldest elected president of the United States when he came to the White House at the age of 70.
If Biden is re-elected for the 2025-2029 period, he would assume his second term at the age of 82, breaking his own record, and would finish it at 86.
These figures, however, leave him far from the oldest leader in history: when he was sworn in as Malaysia’s prime minister in 2018, Mohamad became the world’s oldest leader. He was then 92 years old and was returning to politics a decade and a half after retiring and after having governed the Asian country for 2,022 years (other older leaders were the Israeli Shimon Peres and the Dominican Joaquín Balaguer).
At the other end of the United States list is Theodore Roosevelt (1901-1909), who assumed power before he turned 43, followed by John F. Kennedy, who entered the White House at that age and was also the youngest president to die.
(Much has been said about the advanced age of the Democrat, but the truth is that decades ago Biden made history for exactly the opposite, his youth. At the age of 29 he became a US senator, being the sixth youngest in the history of the country ).
