was and remains the youngest chief executive in the nation’s history. Gifted in administration, including exercising acute tactical strategy and shrewd calculation, Roosevelt was also warmly ...

The youngest person to be a vice presidential candidate was John Breckinridge in 1856, who ultimately did win alongside James Buchanan. Other notable presidents, including Theodore Roosevelt and ...

But when president McKinley was shot and killed by an anarchist just one year later, Roosevelt could not have been in a better position. He took the oath of office as the 26th (and youngest ...

After William McKinley's assassination, Theodore Roosevelt arrives in Washington in 1901 as the youngest president of the United States. He is unwilling to let Congress dictate federal policies ...

The youngest president in US history is Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt, who was thrust into the hot seat in 1909 at the comparatively ancient age of 42. As for the UK, in 1783 William Pitt the Younger ...

His 1886 marriage to Frances Folsom meant he was also the only president to wed while in the White House. When he first took office, Roosevelt was the youngest president in US history, aged just 42.

Here’s a look at the ten youngest U.S. presidents at the time of their inauguration, ranked from youngest to oldest: He was elected in 1960 when he was 43 years old. Kennedy holds the ...