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How The Presidents Measure Up
Reading about American Presidents, it is easy to imagine them as larger than life figures. To help put them in their proper context, we offer this list of U.S. Presidential heights.
5ft4
James Madison 5ft6
Benjamin Harrison
Martin Van Buren 5ft7
John Quincy Adams
John Adams
William McKinley 5ft8
Ulysses S. Grant
William H. Harrison
James Polk
Zachary Taylor 5ft8.5
Rutherford Hayes 5ft9
Millard Fillmore
Harry S. Truman 5ft9.5
Jimmy Carter 5ft10
Clavin Coolidge
Andrew Johnson
Franklin Pierce
Theodore Roosevelt 5ft10.5
Dwight D. Eisenhower | 5ft11
George W. Bush
Grover Cleveland
Herbert Hoover
Woodrow Wilson 5ft11.5
Richard Nixon 6ft
James Buchanan
Gerald R. Ford
James Garfield
Warren Harding
John F. Kennedy
James Monroe
William H. Taft
John Tyler 6ft1
Andrew Jackson
Ronald Reagan 6ft2
Chester Arthur
George Bush
Franklin D. Roosevelt
George Washington 6ft2.5
Bill Clinton
Thomas Jefferson 6ft3
Lyndon B. Johnson 6ft4
Abraham Lincoln |
The Presidential Height Index Theory
Not much is understood by the PHI but The Height Site is keeping track of the theory HERE as it evolves.
More Presidential Information
For links to biographies and portraits of the presidents, visit The Presidents of the United States of America.
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