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Politicians Who Died at Age 97

  97 years, 0 days: Mary V. Beck (1908-2005)John V. Singleton, Jr. (1918-2015)
  97 years, 4 days: James C. McGrew (1813-1910)Clifford P. Hansen (1912-2009)Israel Coe (1794-1891)
  97 years, 6 days: Henry Hill (1795-1892)
  97 years, 8 days: Henry S. Johnston (1867-1965)
  97 years, 16 days: R. James Harvey (1922-2019)
  97 years, 20 days: Victor Christgau (1894-1991)
  97 years, 22 days: Albert H. Bosch (1908-2005)Fred A. Jeffers (1869-1966)
  97 years, 35 days: Irving J. Symons (1907-2004)
  97 years, 39 days: Edward J. McManus (1920-2017)
  97 years, 45 days: Dick Fuester (1876-1973)
  97 years, 48 days: Lyle A. Smith (1904-2001)
  97 years, 56 days: Arthur H. Wicks (1887-1985)
  97 years, 60 days: Charles H. Boswell (1909-2006)
  97 years, 61 days: Floyd R. Yoho (1893-1990)
  97 years, 64 days: Virginia E. Jenckes (1877-1975)
  97 years, 66 days: Frank W. Kuehl (1894-1991)
  97 years, 72 days: George J. Otlowski (1912-2009)
  97 years, 79 days: Andrew J. Balliet (1863-1960)
  97 years, 81 days: Ivor D. Fenton (1889-1986)
  97 years, 86 days: Bertha M. Bell (1891-1989)
  97 years, 93 days: Albert L. Reeves (1873-1971)
  97 years, 95 days: Ernest F. Hollings (1922-2019)
  97 years, 102 days: John I. Blair (1802-1899)
  97 years, 103 days: Addison D. James (1850-1947)
  97 years, 104 days: J. Fife Symington, Jr. (1910-2007)Wendell A. Miles (1916-2013)
  97 years, 111 days: Marjorie S. Holt (1920-2018)
  97 years, 117 days: Bernie L. Case (1872-1969)
  97 years, 119 days: Edward Young (1811-1909)
  97 years, 120 days: Jacob E. Davis (1905-2003)
  97 years, 125 days: T. W. Davidson (1876-1974)
  97 years, 130 days: John Anderson, Jr. (1917-2014)
  97 years, 136 days: Corinne C. Boggs (1916-2013)
  97 years, 147 days: Perry S. Poffenbarger (1899-1997)
  97 years, 155 days: Andrew W. Hockenhull (1877-1974)
  97 years, 156 days: Lucile E. Belen (1912-2010)John H. Smith (1858-1956)
  97 years, 159 days: Clarence E. Macy (1886-1984)
  97 years, 163 days: Adelbert Ames (1835-1933)
  97 years, 166 days: Margaret Chase Smith (1897-1995)
  97 years, 185 days: Harold F. Huibregtse (1907-2005)
  97 years, 195 days: Carl Vinson (1883-1981)
  97 years, 196 days: John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-2006)
  97 years, 200 days: Edwin F. Jaeckle (1894-1992)
  97 years, 204 days: Elsie C. Woodward (1883-1981)
  97 years, 205 days: Thomas Walter Swan (1877-1975)
  97 years, 207 days: Jean Ledwith King (1924-2021)William Hochman (1921-2019)
  97 years, 208 days: James J. Barry (1916-2014)
  97 years, 222 days: Sam W. Reynolds (1890-1988)Lila Cockrell (1922-2019)
  97 years, 226 days: Joshua Mercereau (1759-1857)
  97 years, 228 days: James H. Gildea (1890-1988)
  97 years, 229 days: Cornelius Edward Gallagher (1921-2018)
  97 years, 231 days: Charles Murray (1910-2007)
  97 years, 238 days: Nathaniel S. Berry (1796-1894)
  97 years, 241 days: Mario Biaggi (1917-2015)
  97 years, 243 days: Ima Sievers (1912-2010)John McFadzean (1867-1965)
  97 years, 247 days: Bess Truman (1885-1982)
  97 years, 251 days: Herbert B. Maw (1893-1990)
  97 years, 255 days: Marguerite S. Church (1892-1990)
  97 years, 261 days: Charles S. Mott (1875-1973)Franklin Page (1890-1987)
  97 years, 262 days: Charles Miller Metzner (1912-2009)
  97 years, 268 days: William M. Roth (1916-2014)
  97 years, 270 days: Paul Charles Weick (1899-1997)
  97 years, 272 days: Georgia Neese Gray (1898-1995)
  97 years, 275 days: Douglas F. Dowd (1919-2017)
  97 years, 277 days: Paul H. Nitze (1907-2004)Isabella W. Cannon (1904-2002)Theodore Hesburgh (1917-2015)
  97 years, 282 days: Joseph W. Fifer (1840-1938)Myron H. Bright (1919-2016)
  97 years, 287 days: J. Bracken Lee (1899-1996)
  97 years, 289 days: J. Edward Lumbard (1901-1999)
  97 years, 292 days: Thomas Sumter (1734-1832)Fenimore Chatterton (1860-1958)
  97 years, 297 days: Stephen Lincoln (1886-1984)
  97 years, 298 days: Frederick L. Harms (1848-1945)
  97 years, 301 days: William F. Winter (1923-2020)
  97 years, 302 days: Ben H. Waigand (1900-1998)
  97 years, 308 days: Hiram L. Fong (1906-2004)
  97 years, 309 days: John G. Dow (1905-2003)
  97 years, 316 days: John J. Barton (1906-2004)
  97 years, 319 days: Milton Pollack (1906-2004)
  97 years, 333 days: David B. Haight (1906-2004)George Rice (1854-1952)
  97 years, 334 days: George Hawes (1904-2002)
  97 years, 342 days: Mary Carter (1914-2012)
  97 years, 346 days: August E. Elam (1889-1987)
  97 years, 350 days: Richard R. Jones (1910-2008)
  97 years (number of days undetermined): Bernard L. Glover (1888-1985)Marion Constantine (1889-1987)
  Approximately 97 years: Theodore B. Werner (1892-1989)William G. Milliken (1922-2019)Dana G. Munro (1892-1990)Cornelius Van Hemert Engert (1887-1985)Raymond Telles (1915-2013)John A. Holmes (c.1912-2009)Jacob S. Coxey (1854-1951)Stephen T. Lockwood (1874-1971)Crispus Attucks Wright (c.1904-2001)William A. Tateum (1859-1957)William West (1822-1919)
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