Presidential Heights

Presidential Heights

This article is dedicated to exploring the individual heights of U.S. Presidents.

In Order

George Washington 1789-1797 6' 2" John Adams 1797-1801 5' 7" Thomas Jefferson 1801-1809 6' 2" James Madison 1809-1817 5' 4" James Monroe 1817-1825 6' 0" John Quincy Adams 1825-1829 5' 7" Andrew Jackson 1829-1837 6' 0" Martin Van Buren 1837-1841 5' 6" William Henry Harrison 1841 5' 8" John Tyler 1841-1845 6' 0" James Knox Polk 1845-1849 5' 8" Zachary Taylor 1849-1850 5' 8" Millard Fillmore 1850-1853 5' 9" Franklin Pierce 1853-1857 5' 10" James Buchanan 1857-1861 6' 0" Abraham Lincoln 1861-1865 6' 4" Andrew Johnson 1865-1869 5' 10" Ulysses S. Grant 1869-1877 5' 8" Rutherford B. Hayes 1877-1881 5' 8" James A. Garfield 1881 6' 0" Chester A. Arthur 1881-1885 6' 2" Grover Cleveland 1893-1897 5' 11" Benjamin Harrison 1889-1893 5' 6" William McKinley 1897-1901 5' 7" Theodore Roosevelt 1901-1909 5' 8" William Howard Taft 1909-1913 6' 2" Woodrow Wilson 1913-1921 5' 11" Warren G. Harding 1921-1923 6' 0" Calvin Coolidge 1923-1929 5' 10" Herbert Hoover 1929-1933 5' 11" Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1933-1945 6' 1" Harry S. Truman 1945-1953 5' 7" Dwight David Eisenhower 1953-1961 5' 10" John Fitzgerald Kennedy 1961-1963 6' 1" Lyndon Baines Johnson 1963-1969 6' 3" Richard Milhous Nixon 1969-1974 5' 11" Gerald R. Ford 1974-1977 6' 0" James Earl Carter 1977-1981 5' 10" Ronald Reagan 1981-1989 6' 1" George Herbert Walker Bush 1989-1993 6' 2" William Jefferson Clinton 1993-2001 6' 2" George W. Bush 2001-2009 5' 11"

Inch-By-Inch

6' 4"

Lincoln (16)

6' 3"

Lyndon Baines Johnson (36)

6' 2"

Washington (1), Jefferson (3), Arthur (21), Taft (27), GHW Bush (41), Clinton (42).

6' 1"

FDR (32), Kennedy (35), Reagan (41).

6' 0"

Monroe (5), Jackson (7), Tyler (10), Buchanan (15), Garfield (20), Harding (29), Ford (38).

5' 11"

Cleveland (22, 24), Wilson (28), Hoover (31), Nixon (37), GW Bush (43).

5' 10"

Pierce (14), AJ Johnson (17), Coolidge (30), Eisenhower (34), Carter (39).

5' 9"

Fillmore (13)

5' 8"

WH Harrison (9), Polk (11), Taylor (12), Grant (18), Hayes (19), T. Roosevelt (26)

5' 7"

Adams (2), JQ Adams (6), McKinley (25), Truman (33).

5' 6"

Van Buren (8), Harrison (24).

5' 5"

There haven't been any 5' 5" presidents.

5' 4"

Madison (4)

Caveats

Other sources place George Washington at 6' 2", John F. Kennedy at 6' 0", Richard Nixon at 6' 0", Jimmy Carter at 5' 9", and Bill Clinton at 6' 2".

 

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