Roosevelt was only 63 when he died.

[Drunken Irishman]

Most US presidents have lived beyond the age of 63, here they are.

Lyndon B. Johnson (64)
Franklin Pierce (64)
Zachary Taylor (65)
Andrew Johnson (66)
Woodrow Wilson (67)
Benjamin Harrison (67)
George Washington (67)
William Henry Harrison (68)
Rutherford B. Hayes (70)
Grover Cleveland (71)
John Tyler (71)
William H. Taft (72)
James Monroe (73)
Millard Fillmore (74)
James Buchanan (77)
Andrew Jackson (78)
Dwight D. Eisenhower (78)
Martin Van Buren (79)
John Quincy Adams (80)
Richard Nixon (81)
Jimmy Carter (82)*
Thomas Jefferson (83)
George H.W. Bush (83)*
James Madison (85)
Harry S. Truman (88)+
Herbert Hoover (90)+
John Adams (90)
Ronald Reagan (93)
Gerald Ford (93)

* Still alive
+ Served term before FDR (Hoover) and term after (Truman)

You don't think of Roosevelt as being young when he died. But compared to the average life span of most presidents, he was. It's pretty interesting the man Roosevelt beat lived to 90 and the man that replaced him lived to 88, two of the oldest US presidents ever. I wonder what kind of impact Roosevelt would have had had he not died in his fourth term and was capable of finishing it off?

It's also good to note that Kennedy was the youngest president ever when he died. He was 46, Garfield was nearly 50.

[JVS]

1. That's because Roosevelt looked about 150 years old by the time of his death

[Reverend_Smitty]

5. No kidding!

The Great Depression and WWII would probably age you prematurely just a little bit

[China_cat]

7. Having polio as an adult didn't help.

[texas1928]

2. You are talking about FDR right?

I don't see Teddy on that list.

[Drunken Irishman]

3. Teddy died when he was 60.

[Gold Metal Flake]

4. What if Wallace were still his veep in '45 and not Truman?

Who knows what the world ould have looked like.

[Drunken Irishman]

6. Probably a lot different.

And better. I love Truman and think he's one of the greatest presidents ever, but he's also to blame for the whole Cold War thing.