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Here's another one: Harrison Ruffin Tyler, the grandson of President John Tyler, died last year at the age of 96. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriso...

It's like his life is an empty chamber into which presidents are sucked.

That explains it

That’s what happens when all of a sudden we decide 80yo and 90yo are the future of the Presidency…

It’s well into the future, from when I was a child. Stuff like this makes it feel like I’ve only been around for a short time

This chart tells me we’re about due for a cataclysmic event.

I’ve shaken hands with Alf Landon.

Man i hope we don’t lose Hoover

It’s indicative of where I lie just shy of this timeline that I can’t see this chart without hearing its title to the tune of “Danger Zone.”

This is giving me great depression

One day in 1964 I noticed that the flags were at half mast at the post office. I (then six, and fresh off JFK the year before) asked my mother who had died. She said Herbert Hoover. Even then, I had a vague idea of his place in history and was surprised that he had lived so long.

We just need someone under 62 and we're there. Coincidentally, I turn 35 in 2028. Just sayin.

Jar-Jar is the key to all this

And they all can be connected to Kevin Bacon in 6 steps?

🎶Hiiiighwaaaay toooo theee Hoover Zone!🎶 ...I'll see myself out

Shocking news!

You have entered the Hoover Zone!

That’s actually fascinating. It’s like the last person to get a Civil War pension died in 2020. Our history is a lot closer than people think.

Imagine how long it will take us to get out of Trump Zone.

I learned recently that Frederick Douglas and Babe Ruth overlapped by two weeks and that fact blew my mind.

That's not even the most wild fact illustrating your point! The grandson of the first president who was born after the ratification of the Constitution died LAST YEAR.

Mallard Fillmore did though

And if he'd been born a month earlier he'd have overlapped with Washington, making his "zone" nearly as long and notable.

(Funny that Churchill and Hoover almost exactly the same lifespan)

Jeez. Gen X firmly on the bench comparing our AARP cards.

Conversely, there were only 2 presidents who lived their entire lives while Hoover was living, both died in office, and we commonly refer to them using their three initials. Hmmmm.

So, this is the new "too old to be in office" line in the sand.

Let’s break that streak in 2028

Came here to say the same. Did not see your comment immediately.

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Such an incredible visualization! So cool!

A large portion of the GOP Senate were also alive while segregation was still a thing.

Obama almost broke the curse. The next president will

Dam!!!

We ALL live in Hooverville now

Good news, JD Vance, Rubio stand no chance. Democrats have a conundrum: Kamala was born the day Hoover died.

Hoover. The great humanitarian. Negotiator of food supplies to occupied Belgium and France, despite the blockade. He told an interviewer he became a Republican because there was only one Democrat in town, and that one was the town drunk. Funny how things turn out for political parties.

The lifespan of all the presidents. Red is Hoover. Shows how all presidents since Lincoln were alive at some point during Hoovers life.

And the shaded in bit is when they were president. That's how I figured out which one was lincoln.

This right here is why I am on bsky

Good

Does this hold if you include VPs? A neat one is that the only president born after Hawaii became a state was born in that state.

Not that weird, considering that Herbert Hoover lived for 90 years, which is 38% of the time from the beginning of Washington's first term to today.

Makes sense that all presidents get sucked into the Hoover zone

Great viz

I'm English, so 'Hoover Zone' sounds to me like a vacuum cleaner shop, but I do love a nice bit of data viz.

*Kenny Loggins voice* Highway to the Hoover Zone

IDK why I thought of it, but this chart also holds true with Winston Churchill. He followed Hoover by about 3 months in both birth and death. Someone in the OP's replies also pointed out that Hoover died the same day Kamala Harris was born: October 20, 1964.

I am stoned and was trying to figure out what it meant without looking at your explanation for ten minutes. Thank you!