AS THE DEMOCRATIC FIELD NARROWS TO A FINAL SIX,
A MASSIVE AGE GAP REMAINS.
Think about this: The oldest presidential hopeful was born Just before Pearl Harbor. The youngest was born just before Lil Wayne.
What's
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AGE: 77
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1941
AGE: 78
1952
AGE: 67
1949
AGE: 70
1960
AGE: 59
1964
AGE: 55
1969
AGE: 50
1972
AGE: 47
1974
AGE: 45
1942
anne frank makes
her first diary entry on her 13th birthday.
1949
George orwell's
1984 is published
in london.
1960
JFK announces he’s running for president.
1964
LBJ signs the civil rights act of 1964.
1966
AGE: 53
1982
AGE: 38
1966
THE FIRST ACID TEST TAKES PLACE IN SAN JOSE, CA
1982
Rapper Lil
Wayne is born.
1969
Stonewall riots
1972
joe biden is elected to the senate.
1974
Bernie Sanders
amy
klobuchar
pete
buttigieg
Tom
Steyer
kirsten
gillibrand
Kamala
Harris
julian
castro
Cory Booker
Joe
Biden
Elizabeth
Warren
BetO
O'Rourke
1995
Rosario Dawson makes her film debut in the independent drama kids
HOW OLD?!
Stephen King publishes Carrie, his first novel
1998
Beto O'Rourke is arrested for a DUI.
1994
Joe Biden becomes a grandfather.
1996
THE Last year Elizabeth Warren registers
as a Republican.
2006
Newark mayor Cory Booker receives death threats from an incarcerated leader of the Bloods.
2014
NAVY Lt. Pete Buttigieg is deployed to Afghanistan.
their
AGE
AGAIN?
SANDERS
BIDEN
HICKENLOOPER
WARREN
klobuchar
gillibrand
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THE TOP
harris
O'Rourke
CASTRO
booker
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BUTTigIEG
Buttigieg: Courtesy of Pete for America,
Biden, Booker, Castro, Sanders, Gillibrand, Harris, Klobuchar, O'Rourke, Warren:
U.S. Government/ PUBLIC DOMAIN
Michael
Bloomberg
Brown v. Board of Ed. is first argued before the Supreme Court.
1952
BLOOMBERG
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AGE: 78
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SANDERS
1941
AGE: 77
Japan bombs
Pearl Harbor.
BIDEN
1942
AGE: 76
Anne Frank makes her first diary entry.
WARREN
1949
AGE: 69
George Orwell’s 1984 is published.
Brown v.
Board of Ed.
is argued in
Supreme
Court.
KLOBUCHAR
1960
AGE: 58
JFK announces he’s running for president.
HARRIS
1964
AGE: 54
LBJ signs
the Civil
Rights
Act of 1964.
GILLIBRAND
1966
AGE: 52
The first
acid test takes place in San Jose, CA.
BOOKER
1969
AGE: 49
The first message is sent on proto- internet ARPANET.
BETO
1972
AGE: 46
Joe Biden
is elected
to the
U.S. Senate.
CASTRO
1974
AGE: 44
Stephen
King publishes Carrie, his
first novel.
BUTTIGIEG
1980
AGE: 37
Rapper Lil Wayne is
born in
New Orleans.
1988
Bernie and
Jane Sanders honeymoon in the U.S.S.R.
1994
Joe Biden becomes a Grandfather.
1996
The last year Elizabeth Warren is registered as
a Republican.
1998
Beto arrested for DUI in
El Paso.
2006
Mayor Booker receives death threat from Newark Bloods.
2014
Lt. Pete Butigieg
is deployed
to Afghanistan.
BetO
O'Rourke
Elizabeth
Warren
Joe
Biden
Cory Booker
julian
castro
Kamala
Harris
kirsten
gillibrand
john hickenlooper
pete
buttigieg
amy
klobuchar
Bernie Sanders
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Having trouble wrapping your head around the Democratic age gap?
think about this: The oldest presidential hopeful was born just before Pearl Harbor. The youngest was born just before Lil Wayne.
What's
Design by Ceros originals
AGAIN?
their
AGE
HOW OLD?!
BACK TO
THE TOP
Buttigieg: Courtesy of Pete for America,
Hickenlooper: Courtesy of National Governors Association
Biden, Booker, Castro, Sanders, Gillibrand, Harris, Klobuchar, O'Rourke, Warren:
U.S. Government/ PUBLIC DOMAIN
Cory Booker
Steyer
1957
AGE: 62
1957
Asian flu pandemic claims millions
of lives worldwide
SANDERS
1941
AGE: 77
KLOBUCHAR
1960
AGE: 58
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