User:NoSeptember/List of U.S. Presidents by time as former president

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# in
office
President Length
in days
Rank by
length of time
as former
president
Age at
death
31 Herbert Hoover 11,554
1
90
38 Gerald Ford * 10,482
2
2 John Adams 9,276
3
90
39 Jimmy Carter * 9,021
4
8 Martin Van Buren 7,813
5
79
13 Millard Fillmore 7,675
6
73
33 Harry S. Truman 7,281
7
88
37 Richard Nixon 7,197
8
81
4 James Madison 7,057
9
85
6 John Quincy Adams 6,931
10
80
3 Thomas Jefferson 6,332
11
83
27 William Howard Taft 6,214
12
72
10 John Tyler 6,165
13
71
40 Ronald Reagan 5,616
14
93
22/24 Grover Cleveland ** 5,591
15
71
41 George H. W. Bush * 4,638
16
14 Franklin Pierce 4,602
17
64
19 Rutherford B. Hayes 4,338
18
70
26 Theodore Roosevelt 3,596
19
60
18 Ulysses S. Grant 3,064
20
63
7 Andrew Jackson 3,019
21
78
34 Dwight Eisenhower 2,990
22
78
23 Benjamin Harrison 2,931
23
67
15 James Buchanan 2,647
24
77
17 Andrew Johnson 2,341
25
66
5 James Monroe 2,314
26
73
42 Bill Clinton * 1,716
27
36 Lyndon B. Johnson 1,464
28
64
30 Calvin Coolidge 1,404
29
60
28 Woodrow Wilson 1,067
30
67
1 George Washington 1,016
31
67
21 Chester A. Arthur 625
32
57
11 James Knox Polk 104
33
53
9 William Henry Harrison 0
34
68
12 Zachary Taylor 0
34
65
16 Abraham Lincoln 0
34
56
20 James A. Garfield 0
34
49
25 William McKinley 0
34
58
29 Warren G. Harding 0
34
57
32 Franklin Delano Roosevelt 0
34
63
35 John F. Kennedy 0
34
46
43 George W. Bush * 0
34

* as of October 1, 2005
** Cleveland was a former president for 4 years after his first term plus another 15 years after his second term.