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« on: January 07, 2021, 10:55:07 PM »
« edited: January 08, 2021, 06:24:39 PM by Plankton5165 »

1. Mary Ball Washington (mother) (didn't die until August 25, 1789)
2. Susanna Boylston (mother) (didn't die until April 17, 1797)
4. Nelly Madison (mother) (survived during James Madison's entire presidency - didn't die until February 11, 1829)
6. John Adams (father) (didn't die until July 4, 1826)
11. Jane Polk (mother) (survived James Polk's entire presidency - and even James Polk himself - didn't die until January 11, 1852)
13. Nathaniel Fillmore (father) (survived Millard Fillmore's entire presidency - didn't die until March 28, 1863)
18. Hannah Simpson Grant (mother) (survived Ulysses S. Grant's entire presidency - didn't die until May 11, 1883)
18. Jesse Root Grant (father) (didn't die until June 29, 1873)
20. Eliza Garfield (mother) (survived James A. Garfield's entire presidency - and even James A. Garfield himself - didn't die until January 21, 1888)
25. Nancy McKinley (mother) (didn't die until December 12, 1897)
29. George Tyron Harding (father) (survived Warren G. Harding's entire presidency - and even Warren G. Harding himself - didn't die until November 19, 1928)
30. John Calvin Coolidge Sr. (father) (didn't die until March 18, 1926)
32. Sara Roosevelt (mother) (didn't die until September 7, 1941)
33. Martha Ellen Young Truman (mother) (didn't die until July 26, 1947)
35. Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. (father) (survived John F. Kennedy's entire presidency - and even John F. Kennedy himself - didn't die until November 18, 1969)
35. Rose Kennedy (mother) (survived John F. Kennedy's entire presidency - and even John F. Kennedy himself - didn't die until January 22, 1995)
39. Lillian Carter (mother) (survived Jimmy Carter's entire presidency - didn't die until October 30, 1983)
41. Dororthy Walker Bush (mother) (didn't die until November 19, 1992)
42. Virginia Clinton Kelley (mother) (didn't die until January 6, 1994)
43. George H. W. Bush (father) (survived George W. Bush's entire presidency - didn't die until November 30, 2018)
43. Barbara Bush (mother) (survived George W. Bush's entire presidency - didn't die until April 17, 2018)
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« Reply #1 on: January 09, 2021, 08:36:31 AM »

This is a very interesting list, and includes some presidential parents that I wasn't previously aware of. Two Presidents (John Adams and George H.W. Bush), not only have their own mothers on the list, but are themselves on the list as parents, considering their own sons who became Presidents (John Quincy Adams and George W. Bush). Eliza Garfield, Joseph Kennedy Sr., and Rose Kennedy outlived their children due to their assassinations; George Harding's son, Warren G. Harding, died in office. Jane Polk's son, James Polk, died only three months after leaving office.

Rose Kennedy, to my knowledge, also has the distinction of being the longest-lived presidential parent, dying at age 104 in 1995. To date, she is the only presidential parent who has lived to become a centenarian. Nelly Madison, James Madison's mother, is the second longest-lived presidential parent; she was 98 when she died in 1829.
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« Reply #2 on: January 09, 2021, 11:08:39 AM »

Another stat: There has only been one grandparent who lived to see her grandchild's presidency. JFK's grandmother, who died in 1964.

Obama's maternal grandmother was of course very close to doing this as well, dying only days before the 2008 election.

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« Reply #3 on: January 09, 2021, 12:15:32 PM »

W. Bush would have been the last to have living parent attend the inauguration, right?  I believe Obama had no contact with his father in his adulthood. 
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« Reply #4 on: January 09, 2021, 03:27:18 PM »

W. Bush would have been the last to have living parent attend the inauguration, right?  I believe Obama had no contact with his father in his adulthood. 

Barack Obama Sr. died in a car crash in 1982, so it would have been difficult for him to attend his son's inauguration in 2009 either way.
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« Reply #5 on: January 10, 2021, 06:07:06 PM »

Another stat: There has only been one grandparent who lived to see her grandchild's presidency. JFK's grandmother, who died in 1964.

Obama's maternal grandmother was of course very close to doing this as well, dying only days before the 2008 election.


She outlived him.
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« Reply #6 on: January 11, 2021, 10:14:13 PM »

W. Bush would have been the last to have living parent attend the inauguration, right?  I believe Obama had no contact with his father in his adulthood. 

Barack Obama Sr. died in a car crash in 1982, so it would have been difficult for him to attend his son's inauguration in 2009 either way.

Oh wow, mixed that up!
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« Reply #7 on: January 12, 2021, 09:58:29 AM »

Biden's mother actually saw his first year as VP and died in 2010.

Kamala Harris' dad is still alive, but her mother died in 2009. But as far as I know, she has a more distant relationship with her father.
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« Reply #8 on: January 17, 2021, 02:29:43 AM »

Another stat: There has only been one grandparent who lived to see her grandchild's presidency. JFK's grandmother, who died in 1964.

Obama's maternal grandmother was of course very close to doing this as well, dying only days before the 2008 election.


She outlived him.

JFK's maternal grandmother-Mary Josephine Hannon-was aged 98 when she died in 1964, living as long as James Madison's mother, Nelly Madison (who I noted above). Her daughter obviously inherited her longevity, and actually lived longer than her, as the only presidential parent to become a centenarian.
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« Reply #9 on: January 17, 2021, 02:33:54 AM »

Biden's mother actually saw his first year as VP and died in 2010.

Kamala Harris' dad is still alive, but her mother died in 2009. But as far as I know, she has a more distant relationship with her father.

A few weeks ago, I watched NBC News' 2008 Election Night coverage, and I caught a glimpse of Biden's mother (Catherine Jean Biden) on the stage in Chicago, where Obama delivered his victory speech. The Bidens and other members of the Obama family came out on stage after Obama had delivered his speech. Ironically, it was her grandson Hunter-who's been the focus of so much attention over the past few years-who escorted her onto the stage. She was 92 when she died in 2010.
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« Reply #10 on: January 17, 2021, 05:20:01 AM »

Wow, good list.

I didn't know Poppy's mother lived so long, though I was aware Prescott died in 1972. Ironically she died just after he lost reelection. November 1992 must have been a real tough month for him.

Also worth mentioning is that Bill Clinton's father died before he was born. Gerald Ford also didn't know his father Leslie Lynch King (after whom was named at birth) because his partents separated just after he was born. I think he briefly met his father as teenager, but they didn't really have a relationship. He was later named after his stepfather Gerald Rudolff Ford (Ford later changed his middle name from Rudolff to Rudolph).
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« Reply #11 on: January 17, 2021, 07:17:19 AM »

Biden's mother actually saw his first year as VP and died in 2010.

Kamala Harris' dad is still alive, but her mother died in 2009. But as far as I know, she has a more distant relationship with her father.

A few weeks ago, I watched NBC News' 2008 Election Night coverage, and I caught a glimpse of Biden's mother (Catherine Jean Biden) on the stage in Chicago, where Obama delivered his victory speech. The Bidens and other members of the Obama family came out on stage after Obama had delivered his speech. Ironically, it was her grandson Hunter-who's been the focus of so much attention over the past few years-who escorted her onto the stage. She was 92 when she died in 2010.
That’s surprising. McCain’s mother outlived him.
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« Reply #12 on: January 17, 2021, 12:10:43 PM »

Biden's mother actually saw his first year as VP and died in 2010.

Kamala Harris' dad is still alive, but her mother died in 2009. But as far as I know, she has a more distant relationship with her father.

A few weeks ago, I watched NBC News' 2008 Election Night coverage, and I caught a glimpse of Biden's mother (Catherine Jean Biden) on the stage in Chicago, where Obama delivered his victory speech. The Bidens and other members of the Obama family came out on stage after Obama had delivered his speech. Ironically, it was her grandson Hunter-who's been the focus of so much attention over the past few years-who escorted her onto the stage. She was 92 when she died in 2010.
That’s surprising. McCain’s mother outlived him.

Surprising in what way? That Biden's mother lived to see her son become Vice-President? But you're right about McCain's mother, who just died last year at age 108 (although McCain obviously never became President). She is the most recent parent of a presidential nominee to have died, however.
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« Reply #13 on: January 17, 2021, 11:07:46 PM »

Moderately fun fact: Coolidge's father was a notary and justice of the peace, and he administered the oath of office to his son after President Harding's death (Coolidge was later sworn in a second time by a federal judge).
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« Reply #14 on: June 09, 2021, 06:15:02 PM »

Franklin Roosevelt's mother died exactly three months before Pearl Harbor, while George H.W. Bush's mother died sixteen days after her son lost reelection. H.W. and Barbara Bush, of course, both died in 2018, making them the first set of presidential parents to die in the same year.
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« Reply #15 on: June 10, 2021, 04:37:50 PM »

But when they were presidents, they were not children anymore
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