Hillary Clinton's Age, In Context

If elected in 2016, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton would be 69 years old on Inauguration Day.

To put that into the appropriate context, here is a list of famous world leaders, and how old they were when they came to power. Most of them were considerably younger than 69, a Washington Free Beacon analysis shows.

Louis XIV, 5 (King of France)

Tutankhamun, 9 (Egyptian Pharaoh)

Ivan the Terrible, 16 (Tsar of All Russias)

Henry VIII, 17 (King of England, Husband)

Queen Victoria, 18 (Queen of England)

 

Alexander the Great, 20 (Ruler of Macedonian Empire)

Suleiman the Magnificent, 25 (Sultan)

 

Queen Elizabeth II, 25 (Queen of England)

 

Muammar Gaddafi, 27 (Dictator, Fashion Icon)

Wilhelm II, 29 (German Kaiser) 

 

Napoleon Bonaparte, 34 (Emperor of the French)

Fidel Castro, 34 (Communist, Walking Dead)

  

William the Conqueror, 38 (Last man to conquer England)

 

Haile Selassie, 38 (Emperor of Ethiopia, Rastafarian Messiah)

 

Saddam Hussein, 41 (Iraqi Dictator)

 

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, 42 (President of Turkey)

 

Teddy Roosevelt, 42 (POTUS, Wielder of Big Stick)

Joseph Stalin, 43 (Communist)

 

Genghis Khan, 44 (Supreme Khan of the Mongols)

 

Bill Clinton, 46 (POTUS, Husband)

Barack Obama, 47 (POTUS, Memoirist)

Vladimir Putin, 47 (Strongman)

 

Charlemagne, 50s (Ruler of Holy Roman Empire)

 

Julius Caesar, 51 (Roman Dictator)

 

Mao Zedong, 51 (Communist)

 

Franklin D. Roosevelt, 51 (POTUS, all around badass)

 

Abraham Lincoln, 52 (Great POTUS)

 

Jimmy Carter, 52 (POTUS, Jogger)

Margaret Thatcher, 53 (British Prime Minister)

 

George W. Bush, 54 (Greatest Living POTUS)

 

Otto von Bismarck, 55 (German Chancellor)

 

Richard Nixon, 56 (Underrated)

 

George Washington, 57 (First POTUS)

 

Thomas Jefferson, 57 (Famous Author, POTUS)

 

Pope John Paul II, 58 (Pope, anti-Communist)

 

Mikhail Gorbachev, 59 (Communist)

 

George H.W. Bush, 64 (Famous Father, POTUS)

Yasser Arafat, 64 (Nobel Peace Prize recipient, Terrorist)

Winston Churchill, 65 (British Prime Minister, also badass)

 

Charles de Gaulle, 68 (Famous French)

 

Ronald Reagan, 69 (Famous Actor, POTUS)

Hillary Clinton, 69? (Public Speaker, Homeowner)

Ruhollah Khomeini, 77 (Supreme Leader of Iran)