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Founding Father and first president George Washington lived to the age of 67. Thomas Jefferson died at 83. But there's a movement to let anyone old enough to vote, run for any office, including ...
After leaving the presidency, Washington retired with his wife Martha to Mount Vernon, their beloved Virginia estate. ... George Washington died two days later at age 67.
What very few people know today is that even George Washington was attacked for his advanced age and perceived senility as president. Age took its toll on Washington in the presidency.
The presidential office was first envisioned to be more like a clerk's job, and in its earliest incarnation, it was almost unseemly to be perceived as campaigning for the office, historians tell NPR.
We cannot tell a lie: George Washington's false teeth weren't made out of wood, ... by the time he took the oath of office as president at age 57, he was wearing full dentures.