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Only Ronald Reagan was older when first elected. In fact, the 2016 nomination fight currently looks like a teachers-versus-students charity basketball game. The Republicans who have declared their candidacy consist of two people who would be 45 when elected–Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio–and Rand Paul, who at 53 would still be on the young side for a president. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3842314/bernie-sanders-age-chart/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3842314/bernie-sanders-age-chart/"},"headline":"Bernie Sanders Would Be the Oldest President In U.S. History","datePublished":"2015-04-30T19:53:49.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T06:50:12.437Z","description":"A chart of every president by his age when first elected to office","url":"https://time.com/3842314/bernie-sanders-age-chart/","keywords":["Hillary Clinton","Ronald Reagan","Bernie Sanders"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Chris Wilson","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/chris-wilson/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3842314/bernie-sanders-age-chart/","name":"Bernie Sanders Would Be the Oldest President In U.S. History"}}]}] ```