has there ever been a congress person to live over 100?

[HillGoose]

i didnt know who DANIEL EVANS was until last year, then i found out he is the OLDEST FORMER SENATOR at 98 YEARS OLD!

has any of them ever made it to 100???

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Strom Thurmond was 3rd in line for the Presidency when he turned 100 and Trent Lott made dumb comments at the birthday party.

[katelyn not caitlin]

Corneilius Cole lived longer than Strom:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelius_Cole

[Del Tachi]

James L. Buckley died last year at the age of 100. 

Dan Evans is also the last living senator to be a World War II veteran, although a handful of former House members with WWII service are still around (one of them, Frank Guarini, will turn 100 later this year.)  The last two World War II vets to leave congress were John Dingell (D-MI) and Ralph Hall (R-TX), both in 2015.

[katelyn not caitlin]

It is definitely troubling, worrisome and tragic-horrible that there's nothing stopping some centenarian from becoming President.

Even more frightening is the fact that it's not impossible for this to happen. The president pro tempore of the United States Senate is third in the line of succession to the Presidency behind only the Vice President and the Speaker of the House. And since the president pro tempore is traditionally the senior Senator from the majority party, that person is usually super dooper old.

Had Jim Jeffords not switched sides, the months immediately after 911 may have felt even scarier.

Strom Thurmond was third in the Presidential line of succession when Jeffords did his switch and he won 39 Electoral votes as a pro-segregation candidate in the 1948 Presidential election against Harry S Truman.

President Strom in '02-'03 *and* with the pressure to "deal with" Saddam Hussein?