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« on: October 20, 2017, 09:05:42 PM »
« edited: October 20, 2017, 09:14:32 PM by UWS »

Next year, several octogenarian senators like Orin Hatch, 83 and Dianne Feinstein, 84, are likely to win re-election. Meanwhile, the only senator who served until 100 years old was Strom Thurmond of South Carolina. How many U.S. senators served until they were at least 90?
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« Reply #1 on: October 20, 2017, 09:08:25 PM »

Next year, several octogenarian senators like Orin Hatch, 83, Roger Wicker, 80, Dianne Feinstein, 84, are likely to win re-election. Meanwhile, the only senator who served until 100 years old was Strom Thurmond of South Carolina. How many U.S. senators served until they were at least 90?
Wicker is only 66.
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« Reply #2 on: October 20, 2017, 09:11:12 PM »

Next year, several octogenarian senators like Orin Hatch, 83, Roger Wicker, 80, Dianne Feinstein, 84, are likely to win re-election. Meanwhile, the only senator who served until 100 years old was Strom Thurmond of South Carolina. How many U.S. senators served until they were at least 90?
Wicker is only 66.

Excuse me, I was confused between him and his fellow Mississippian Thad Cochran who is 80.
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« Reply #3 on: October 20, 2017, 09:25:58 PM »

Too many. 80 should be mandatory retirement age
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« Reply #4 on: October 20, 2017, 09:47:10 PM »

Lautenberg was 88 when he died, close enough I guess.
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« Reply #5 on: October 20, 2017, 11:44:05 PM »

Too many. 80 should be mandatory retirement age

The Senate is suppose to be full of old people.

The old people that are suppose to kick the popular majority in the house in the nuts when they go too far. Of course the house doesn't work like that because of gerrymandering and too few districts, and since many Senators are sourced from the House, well you can guess the impact on the Senate.

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« Reply #6 on: October 21, 2017, 01:33:20 AM »

The term "Senate" literally means chamber of old men.
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« Reply #7 on: October 21, 2017, 04:44:45 AM »

Strom Thurmond served until 100. His last reelection was at age 94.

Also stunning is that Germany's first chancellor Konrad Adenauer served until 87 (member of parliament until his death at 91).

Interesting list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_members_of_the_United_States_Congress_by_longevity_of_service
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« Reply #8 on: October 21, 2017, 10:52:33 AM »
« Edited: October 21, 2017, 01:42:57 PM by MarkD »

Two Supreme Court Justices who stayed in office until 90 were Oliver Wendell Holmes and John Paul Stevens.

But Senators? It appears to me that only Carl Hayden and Robert Byrd have the distinction of being Senators past their 90th birthday.
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« Reply #9 on: October 21, 2017, 03:31:02 PM »

But Senators? It appears to me that only Carl Hayden and Robert Byrd have the distinction of being Senators past their 90th birthday.
Strom Thurmond was senator until age 100, and Inouye would've been 92 at the end of his term, had he not died.
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« Reply #10 on: October 21, 2017, 03:34:48 PM »

But Senators? It appears to me that only Carl Hayden and Robert Byrd have the distinction of being Senators past their 90th birthday.
Strom Thurmond was senator until age 100, and Inouye would've been 92 at the end of his term, had he not died.

I shouldn't have said "only," but the reason I didn't mention Strom Thurmond is because OP mentioned him.
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« Reply #11 on: October 24, 2017, 04:20:05 PM »

I think only Byrd and Thurmond?
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« Reply #12 on: October 14, 2019, 12:55:21 AM »

Two Supreme Court Justices who stayed in office until 90 were Oliver Wendell Holmes and John Paul Stevens.

But Senators? It appears to me that only Carl Hayden and Robert Byrd have the distinction of being Senators past their 90th birthday.

This is demonstrably false. Theodore Green of Rhode Island was 93 when he left office in 1961, and of course, Strom Thurmond served until age 100, dying just four months after he left office in June 2003.
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« Reply #13 on: October 14, 2019, 06:34:16 AM »

Two Supreme Court Justices who stayed in office until 90 were Oliver Wendell Holmes and John Paul Stevens.

But Senators? It appears to me that only Carl Hayden and Robert Byrd have the distinction of being Senators past their 90th birthday.

This is demonstrably false. Theodore Green of Rhode Island was 93 when he left office in 1961, and of course, Strom Thurmond served until age 100, dying just four months after he left office in June 2003.

A nicer way to term this would've been "Also, Theodore Green of Rhode Island was 93 when he left office in 1961, and as the OP mentioned, Strom Thurmond served until age 100, dying just four months after he left office in June 2003."
But what can I expect, this is Atlas Tongue
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« Reply #14 on: October 14, 2019, 09:27:10 AM »

Grassley will be 89 years old when his term expires. I can see him running for re-election, as long as he stays healthy.
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« Reply #15 on: October 14, 2019, 10:12:44 AM »

Shelby will be 88 when his term ends. I can see him running again, too.
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« Reply #16 on: October 14, 2019, 12:18:14 PM »

I've always found Carl Hayden to be one of those interesting people who bridged completely different eras. He represented Arizona as a territorial delegate at the 1904 Democratic National Convention, voted to enter World War I, influenced major New Deal projects, and was still in office during the Vietnam War.
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« Reply #17 on: October 14, 2019, 06:32:25 PM »

Two Supreme Court Justices who stayed in office until 90 were Oliver Wendell Holmes and John Paul Stevens.

But Senators? It appears to me that only Carl Hayden and Robert Byrd have the distinction of being Senators past their 90th birthday.

This is demonstrably false. Theodore Green of Rhode Island was 93 when he left office in 1961, and of course, Strom Thurmond served until age 100, dying just four months after he left office in June 2003.

A nicer way to term this would've been "Also, Theodore Green of Rhode Island was 93 when he left office in 1961, and as the OP mentioned, Strom Thurmond served until age 100, dying just four months after he left office in June 2003."
But what can I expect, this is Atlas Tongue

Who are you to be concerned about civility?
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