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Politicians Who Died at Age 53

  53 years, 0 days: John Cradlebaugh (1819-1872)Willis Lovelace (1912-1965)
  53 years, 2 days: Dixie Gilmer (1901-1954)
  53 years, 3 days: Alfred Oakley (1839-1892)
  53 years, 4 days: John M. Faison (1862-1915)
  53 years, 6 days: John J. Babka (1884-1937)William G. Utterback (1891-1944)
  53 years, 7 days: T. Semmes Walmsley (1889-1942)Edmund J. Delany (1906-1959)
  53 years, 8 days: Benjamin Bourne (1755-1808)
  53 years, 10 days: Herman D. Gould (1799-1852)
  53 years, 11 days: Charles G. Edwards (1878-1931)Edward Burleson (1798-1851)Carl Friedrich Adae (1815-1868)
  53 years, 13 days: J. Mitchell Chase (1891-1945)John Walker (1779-1832)George M. Huntington (1836-1889)James P. Rossiter (1890-1943)
  53 years, 14 days: Albert M. Lea (1848-1901)
  53 years, 15 days: Oliver James Dickey (1823-1876)
  53 years, 19 days: Charles W. Anderson, Jr. (1907-1960)
  53 years, 24 days: Charles E. Sapp (1859-1912)
  53 years, 25 days: James E. Belser (1805-1859)Frank W. Benson (1858-1911)
  53 years, 28 days: George Bradbury (1770-1823)
  53 years, 29 days: Silas Stow (1773-1827)
  53 years, 30 days: James H. Hyer (1903-1956)
  53 years, 32 days: Howell Cobb (1815-1868)Lee E. Geyer (1888-1941)Charles Rich (1771-1824)
  53 years, 33 days: Henry B. Coman (1858-1912)Louis S. Epes (1882-1935)
  53 years, 34 days: Ira Kidder (1804-1858)
  53 years, 36 days: Abraham Bedford Venable (1758-1811)
  53 years, 38 days: Boutwell Dunlap (1877-1930)
  53 years, 40 days: John W. Geary (1819-1873)Charles E. MacMillin (1888-1941)Joseph B. Spencer (1836-1889)
  53 years, 41 days: George W. Bailey (1856-1909)
  53 years, 42 days: Wilbur L. Adams (1884-1937)Francis Spies, Jr. (1840-1893)
  53 years, 45 days: Lewis Bigelow (1785-1838)Reuben Fithian (1800-1853)
  53 years, 46 days: Harry W. Griswold (1886-1939)George C. McKee (1837-1890)
  53 years, 49 days: Roger Davis (1762-1815)Ogden L. Mills (1884-1937)
  53 years, 52 days: Alfred Wells (1814-1867)
  53 years, 55 days: J. Campbell Cantrill (1870-1923)
  53 years, 57 days: Guy W. Cheney (1886-1939)
  53 years, 58 days: Griffith W. Lewis (1862-1915)Apollos Comstock (1836-1889)
  53 years, 60 days: Ossian B. Hart (1821-1874)
  53 years, 63 days: Luke D. Stapleton (1869-1923)
  53 years, 65 days: Thomas J. Haynes (1824-1877)
  53 years, 70 days: Henry Burk (1850-1903)
  53 years, 72 days: George W. B. Towns (1801-1854)
  53 years, 75 days: John Moffet (1831-1884)
  53 years, 78 days: D. Worth Clark (1902-1955)Martin H. Glynn (1871-1924)
  53 years, 79 days: Owen Lovejoy (1811-1864)John Cardwell (1837-1890)
  53 years, 80 days: Lazar Abraham (1921-1974)
  53 years, 81 days: Alfred A. Sheridan (1928-1982)
  53 years, 82 days: Richard Merrill Atkinson (1894-1947)Joshua Pilcher (1790-1843)
  53 years, 88 days: John W. Thornburg (1834-1888)
  53 years, 89 days: Calvin S. Brice (1845-1898)Charles Clay Trabue (1798-1851)
  53 years, 90 days: Alexander Thayer (1865-1918)
  53 years, 91 days: Harvey Helm (1865-1919)
  53 years, 94 days: Arthur Bruce Williams (1872-1925)Walter Nordstrom (1914-1967)
  53 years, 95 days: Henry H. Haight (1825-1878)Claude Zeth Luse (1879-1932)
  53 years, 98 days: John D. Hess (1951-2004)
  53 years, 99 days: Van H. Manning (1839-1892)Samuel J. Daugherty (1873-1926)
  53 years, 104 days: Rodger Paul Davies (1921-1974)
  53 years, 106 days: Henry A. Hoyt (1914-1967)Robert T. Bushnell (1896-1949)
  53 years, 108 days: John J. Pettus (1813-1867)
  53 years, 111 days: John B. Sullivan (1897-1951)
  53 years, 117 days: Hardin Richard Runnels (1820-1873)
  53 years, 119 days: M. Michael Edelstein (1888-1941)Daniel Franklin Davis (1843-1897)
  53 years, 121 days: Robert C. Frasure (1942-1995)
  53 years, 125 days: Otis Wingo (1877-1930)Henry Wulff (1854-1907)
  53 years, 127 days: Jon Hinson (1942-1995)
  53 years, 129 days: Vera Buchanan (1902-1955)
  53 years, 131 days: Joseph Lecompte (1797-1851)Samuel Lyman (1749-1802)
  53 years, 133 days: William H. Waterman (1813-1867)
  53 years, 136 days: Frank H. Eggers (1901-1954)
  53 years, 138 days: Barnett Gibbs (1851-1904)
  53 years, 139 days: Samuel C. Major (1840-1894)
  53 years, 140 days: David Dalton Dyer (1791-1844)
  53 years, 142 days: John Jones McRae (1815-1868)
  53 years, 143 days: Edward B. Whitney (1857-1911)
  53 years, 145 days: Walter D. McIndoe (1819-1872)Samuel W. Parker (1805-1859)Dallas B. Smith (1883-1936)
  53 years, 148 days: Frederick Van Dyne (1861-1915)
  53 years, 149 days: Silas Betton (1768-1822)Thomas H. Birch (1875-1929)
  53 years, 150 days: Joseph A. Baldwin (1895-1949)
  53 years, 155 days: George W. Sarbacher, Jr. (1919-1973)Merrick Ezra Carn (1808-1862)
  53 years, 156 days: Rollo C. Witwer (1887-1940)
  53 years, 157 days: George F. Lincoln (1850-1903)Thomas Franklin Clyburn (1843-1896)
  53 years, 159 days: Bates Cooke (1787-1841)
  53 years, 160 days: Ezekiel S. Candler (1815-1869)
  53 years, 161 days: Roger Wolcott (1847-1900)Thomas L. Raymond (1875-1928)
  53 years, 162 days: Arthur E. Bidwell (1871-1924)
  53 years, 164 days: Thomas Lynch (1844-1898)
  53 years, 165 days: Napoleon B. Broward (1857-1910)John F. Jewell (1874-1927)
  53 years, 167 days: R. Jasper Smith (1908-1962)
  53 years, 168 days: Brooks M. Bliss (1884-1938)
  53 years, 169 days: Edward A. Kenney (1884-1938)Thomas Dunlap (1832-1885)
  53 years, 170 days: Leander Babcock (1811-1864)
  53 years, 173 days: O. K. Allen (1882-1936)
  53 years, 176 days: Benjamin Hale Austin (1832-1885)
  53 years, 179 days: Richard Washburn Child (1881-1935)
  53 years, 180 days: Herschel W. Arant (1887-1941)
  53 years, 182 days: Stephen Friel Nuckolls (1825-1879)
  53 years, 183 days: Lenora E. Kealing (1873-1926)
  53 years, 184 days: William L. Soards (1942-1996)John V. Porch (1806-1859)
  53 years, 185 days: Louis E. Miller (1899-1952)Frank A. Beamish (1842-1895)William Preston (1729-1783)
  53 years, 186 days: R. Philip Gormully (1847-1900)
  53 years, 188 days: Lynn Carlton Higby (1938-1992)
  53 years, 189 days: George G. Symes (1840-1893)Welcome Arnold (1745-1798)
  53 years, 190 days: Thomas H. Ford (1814-1868)
  53 years, 192 days: William S. Beardsley (1901-1954)William J. Briggs (1834-1887)
  53 years, 195 days: James Munroe (1815-1869)
  53 years, 197 days: Leo J. Ryan (1925-1978)William T. Powers (1897-1950)
  53 years, 198 days: Ebenezer Herrick (1785-1839)
  53 years, 199 days: Ezra Millard (1833-1886)
  53 years, 201 days: David T. Disney (1803-1857)
  53 years, 203 days: Louis F. Meek (1863-1917)
  53 years, 205 days: Finley Hamilton (1886-1940)Seabury Ford (1801-1855)Joseph F. Sanford (1897-1951)
  53 years, 206 days: Frank Lawler (1842-1896)
  53 years, 209 days: Charles Haight (1838-1891)
  53 years, 211 days: John C. Purcell (1885-1938)
  53 years, 212 days: Joseph W. Folk (1869-1923)
  53 years, 213 days: George H. Hand (1837-1891)W. E. 'Bill' Flannery (1904-1958)
  53 years, 215 days: John M. Ashbrook (1928-1982)
  53 years, 219 days: Francis Hopkinson (1737-1791)
  53 years, 225 days: Joel P. Heatwole (1856-1910)James K. Polk (1795-1849)
  53 years, 228 days: Jacob Babbitt (1809-1862)
  53 years, 230 days: Frederic T. Greenhalge (1842-1896)Paul S. Reinsch (1869-1923)
  53 years, 231 days: Horace J. Austin (1837-1891)
  53 years, 233 days: Charles G. Hanna (1889-1942)
  53 years, 236 days: Thomas J. Rusk (1803-1857)Chester E. Solomonson (1898-1952)
  53 years, 237 days: Fred Hall (1916-1970)Robert E. Pattison (1850-1904)
  53 years, 238 days: Robert F. Broussard (1864-1918)
  53 years, 239 days: Alexander S. McDill (1822-1875)G. Dawson Coleman (1825-1878)
  53 years, 240 days: Jean Galloway Bissell (1936-1990)
  53 years, 241 days: Silas Lee (1760-1814)Winford Abrams (1868-1921)
  53 years, 242 days: Julius Fleischmann (1871-1925)Benjamin Wood Richards (1797-1851)
  53 years, 245 days: William N. Monies (1827-1881)Ralph E. Campbell (1867-1921)
  53 years, 247 days: Israel W. Durham (1855-1909)
  53 years, 251 days: Sydney E. Mudd (1858-1911)
  53 years, 252 days: Andrew G. Chapman (1839-1892)
  53 years, 256 days: Abel Parker Upshur (1790-1844)Lorenzo Dow Lewelling (1846-1900)Washburne R. Andrus (1841-1895)
  53 years, 258 days: William N. Rogers (1892-1945)Paul Hamilton (1762-1816)
  53 years, 262 days: John B. Baldwin (1820-1873)
  53 years, 264 days: Lewis B. Schwellenbach (1894-1948)Pedro Perea (1852-1906)
  53 years, 268 days: George E. Bohrer (1907-1960)
  53 years, 270 days: Robert McClellan (1806-1860)
  53 years, 273 days: Paul Morton (1857-1911)William D. Templeton (1870-1924)
  53 years, 274 days: Nathaniel Wheeler Coffin (1815-1869)
  53 years, 275 days: Alfredo L. Demorest (1881-1934)
  53 years, 278 days: Robert S. Maloney (1881-1934)
  53 years, 279 days: John Banister (1734-1788)Frederick B. Balzar (1880-1934)
  53 years, 282 days: William Augustus Lake (1808-1861)Eli H. Murray (1843-1896)Josephus V. D. Sutphen (1802-1856)
  53 years, 283 days: Frederick C. Hicks (1872-1925)
  53 years, 284 days: Jared Rathbone (1791-1845)
  53 years, 286 days: M. Livy Agens (1855-1909)
  53 years, 288 days: David Barton (1783-1837)
  53 years, 289 days: John Elliott (1773-1827)Frank J. McNulty (1872-1926)C. E. Chamberlain (1845-1899)
  53 years, 291 days: Jonathan Fisk (1778-1832)William J. Green, Jr. (1910-1963)
  53 years, 293 days: John E. Fogarty (1913-1967)
  53 years, 294 days: W. F. Allison (1892-1945)
  53 years, 295 days: Percy M. Pitts (1890-1943)
  53 years, 297 days: John Coffee (1782-1836)Amos W. Barber (1861-1915)
  53 years, 298 days: James Conner (1829-1883)
  53 years, 301 days: Madison Burnell (1812-1865)
  53 years, 302 days: Truman Harrison Hoag (1816-1870)William D. Crum (1859-1912)
  53 years, 305 days: John Laing (1880-1934)
  53 years, 307 days: William Johnson (1821-1875)
  53 years, 308 days: Robert Emmet Burke (1847-1901)Denver S. Dickerson (1872-1925)
  53 years, 309 days: Noble Brandon Judah (1884-1938)Nicholas W. Thomas (1810-1864)
  53 years, 312 days: Edgar Wilson (1861-1915)Smith Hickenlooper (1880-1933)
  53 years, 314 days: William F. L. Hadley (1847-1901)
  53 years, 315 days: Henry Bell Van Rensselaer (1810-1864)
  53 years, 316 days: Thomas Settle (1865-1919)Solomon Luna (1858-1912)
  53 years, 317 days: Daniel H. Hastings (1849-1903)
  53 years, 319 days: Ephraim M. Woomer (1844-1897)
  53 years, 321 days: Martin Brimmer (1793-1847)W. S. Van Dyke (1889-1943)
  53 years, 322 days: John Johnson (1770-1824)
  53 years, 323 days: Robert B. Smith (1854-1908)
  53 years, 327 days: William Allen (1827-1881)
  53 years, 330 days: William Arthur McKeighan (1842-1895)
  53 years, 331 days: Michael Joseph Gill (1864-1918)
  53 years, 337 days: Robert A. Everett (1915-1969)Arthur C. Mellette (1842-1896)
  53 years, 339 days: Charles C. Reid (1868-1922)Thomas Worthington (1773-1827)Dennis G. Brummitt (1881-1935)
  53 years, 340 days: Cadwalader Morris (1741-1795)
  53 years, 341 days: James Armenius Hedgcock (1853-1907)Juan Argote (1878-1932)
  53 years, 342 days: Daniel Kelso (1803-1857)H. Allen Barton (1893-1947)
  53 years, 344 days: Josiah M. Anderson (1807-1861)John J. Casey (1875-1929)
  53 years, 345 days: Winnifred Mason Huck (1882-1936)
  53 years, 346 days: Louis W. Turpin (1849-1903)John Brough (1811-1865)A. H. Zimmerschied (1905-1959)
  53 years, 350 days: Albert S. Willis (1843-1897)Henry M. Hoyt (1856-1910)
  53 years, 356 days: William Kennedy Clowney (1797-1851)
  53 years, 357 days: Almon H. Read (1790-1844)Edward Kent, Jr. (1862-1916)Perez Randall (1784-1838)
  53 years, 360 days: John B. Madigan (1864-1918)
  53 years, 363 days: William A. French (1849-1903)
  53 years, 364 days: William L. Lyons (1857-1911)
  53 years (number of days undetermined): George Madison (1763-1816)Paul M. Arant (1910-1963)Robert F. Barabe (1917-1971)Charlie Gore, Jr. (1930-1984)Allison L. Adams (1867-1920)Alfred H. Hovey (1812-1865)Charles S. Landers (1847-1900)
  Approximately 53 years: William Babcock (1785-1838)John E. Colhoun (c.1749-1802)Solomon W. Downs (1801-1854)Alexander Gillon (1741-1794)William Grayson (1736-1790)Thomas C. Hackett (c.1798-1851)William W. Irwin (1803-1856)William Matthews (1755-c.1808)Edwin R. Meade (1836-1889)Truman A. Merriman (1839-1892)Thomas Murray, Jr. (1770-1823)James W. Reid (1849-1902)John Rutledge, Jr. (1766-1819)Leonidas Sexton (1827-1880)William B. Shepard (1799-1852)James F. Stewart (1851-1904)Roderick D. Sutherland (1862-1915)Jacob Montgomery Thornburgh (1837-1890)Joseph L. Tillinghast (1791-1844)Capell L. Weems (1860-1913)Charles W. Willard (1827-1880)Jed Joseph Johnson, Jr. (1939-1993)John Morton (c.1724-1777)Royal Tyler Wheeler (1810-1864)Clark L. Owen (1808-1862)Robert McAlpin Williamson (1806-1859)Caleb Claiborne Herbert (c.1814-1867)Elisha Lawrence (1746-1799)Horace M. Oren (1859-1912)Bayard Taylor (1825-1878)William B. Sorsby (1858-1912)Edward H. Strobel (1855-1908)Robert Winn (1895-1948)John T. Jordan (1832-1886)Arthur W. Karch (1886-1940)Noble Ashley (1863-1917)Charles W. Jones (1904-c.1957)John Rice Jones (1792-1845)Clifford C. Anglim (1904-1957)Nathan Coombs (c.1824-1877)John B. Bruner (1825-1878)John K. Brostuen (1884-1938)Peter Cagger (c.1815-1868)William P. Dobson (1793-1846)Clinton J. Sharrett (c.1877-1930)Miles C. Rowland (1869-1922)Charles M. Dorr (1816-1870)Fred Pruitt (c.1941-1994)Harvey L. Schwamm (c.1905-1958)George E. Philipps (1875-1928)Horatio Webb (c.1787-1840)Edmund Plowden (1751-1804)Ralph E. Lowell (c.1897-1950)Charles Nelson Proctor (1882-1936)Joel Ray (1801-1854)Thomas B. Coleman (c.1795-1848)Duncan J. McColl, Jr. (1900-1953)Harry A. Munk (1901-1955)Grant L. Ambrose (1915-1968)Thomson F. Mason (1785-1838)John R. Dawson (1950-2003)Martin Menery (1869-1922)A. M. Piper (1820-1873)George B. Warner, Jr. (c.1951-2004)Donald A. Tilleman (1919-1972)Augustus B. Woodward (1774-1827)John B. Bowman (1832-1885)Axel G. Burnam (1851-1905)Patrick R. Griffin (c.1878-1931)Jacob H. Hoysradt (1858-1911)George W. Bellamy (1867-1920)William Perry (1746-1799)Jesse Albert Crisp (1853-1906)Henry Harrison (c.1713-1766)Samuel Shethar (c.1887-1940)Daniel G. Beers (1817-1870)George Kyte (1846-1900)W. Guy Kirtley (1883-1936)Henry P. Crawford (c.1880-1933)Lummie J. Earle (1852-1906)W. Hinkle Statler (1909-1962)Celestin Jagou (1844-1898)
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