Not enough room in the Thread title, but feel free to answer for Prime Minister/Supreme Leader/Generalissimo/Whatever your kinky country is into.
Consider only major party candidates in the general election and third party candidates that had a genuine presence (George Wallace, Ross Perot).
Looks like for 2016 Marco Rubio and Bobby Jindal are the youngest realistically possible candidates (we can treat the definition of “realistically” with a bit of elasticity for discussion of 2016). These guys are just four years older than me. So, it looks like I’ll make it through 2016 still having never had a Presidential candidate younger than me. I think there’s a decent chance I’ll also make it through the 2020 election without a candidate younger than me but it is certainly possible that there will be some young politician who ascends between now and then.
Mundane Pointless side observation:
When I looked up the 2016 would-be candidates ages, I was amazed to find that Ted Cruz is only six months older than Rubio. Ted Cruz looks horrible for his age.
44 year old Rubio looks to be 44. Ted Cruz looks easily 8 years older.
(Jindal doesn’t look great for his age either, but I figured him for about 47 or so, Cruz I thought was at least 50).
Every U.S. President before Kennedy was born before 1900.
Every U.S. President from Kennedy through Bush Sr. was born in between 1908 and 1924, inclusive.
Clinton and Bush Jr. were both born in 1946.
Obama was born in 1961.
I’ll let someone else dig up info on major-party Presidential nominees who didn’t get elected.
Hasn’t happened yet to me in Canada, but will happen in this fall’s election when that young whippersnapper Trudeau leads the Liberals in the election. I remember when he was born!
Another way to do this is to take your birth year and add 35. That will give you the first year anyone who was younger than you could run for president. (More or less. I’m not sure exactly when the age 35 limit applies. It could be as late as January 20th upon inauguration or as early as when you might have file to run.)
In my case it gives 1984. I’m pretty sure Obama is the first major candidate who was younger than I.
Obama was the first to be younger than me. Hillary may be the last president to be older than me. By the end of her second term in 2020 I’ll be 64 and most likely the next president will be younger.
… what? Wouldn’t you just subtract 35 from the current year, and get 1980? Anybody born that year, or back to the year after I was born, is younger than me. In my case, Obama.
Obama is close. He’s less than three months older than me.
Do VP candidates count? Sarah Palin is younger than me. (Paul Ryan’s also younger than me and appears to be the first person on a major ticket to be born in the seventies.)
If not, there’s Thaddeus McCotter, who made a brief presidential run in 2012.
In the current campaign, Ted Cruz, Bobby Jindal, Chris Murphy, Martin O’Malley, Rand Paul, Marco Rubio, and Scott Walker are current or likely candidates who are younger than me.
Waka Flocka Flame (aka Juaquin James Malphurs) has announced he is running for President, apparently as an independent, despite being only 28.
No that gives you the year for who could run for President right now. The question was a historical one. Who in history was the first candidate to be younger than each poster. That is different for each person depending on when they were born.
Yeah, I figured that would be the most popular answer from those who have seen it happen already but I should have done the math: Obama very well may be the only answer in this Thread.
We’d need 67 year olds to be older than Gore, and 69 year olds to be older than Clinton. I think we have a few posters here who would qualify but I’m not sure who they are and they very well may not see this Thread.
Considering I was born two weeks shy of 1987 and am 28, obviously no president or any leader as of yet. Maybe not at least for another decade, but certainly by the 2030’s there will be heads of state or government my age or younger.
The closest to my age currently is Irakli Garibashvili, prime minister of Georgia who is about to turn 33 on June 28. This makes him just four and a half years older than me. North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un Was born in January 1983, four years older than me. Slightly older is Qatar’s Sheikh Tamim and Bhutan’s King Jigme Wangchuck who were both born in 1980.
So far no major presidential candidates have been younger than me. The younger Republicans this time around are still a bit older than me. Maybe by 2020.
And looking at a list of sitting governors, they are all older than me, Governor Nikki Haley of South Carolina being the youngest. Maybe there were a couple gubernatorial losers younger than me?
It hasn’t happened yet. It could happen in 2016 if the Pubbies go with one of the younger ones like Cruz, Rubio, Walker, or Jindal. Jeb, Christie, and Santorum are all older than me. Hillary and Warren are both way older than me, so 2020 is the earliest I could see both major party candidates being younger than me.
Not as traumatic as Daniel Craig as Bond, or Green Day (the first concert I went to that I realized I was older than everyone on stage)