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This article shows the living presidents of the United States from the inauguration of the first president of the United States in 1789 until the present. The following table includes all 45 persons who have taken the presidential oath of office. (Persons who served as acting president of the United States or as president of the Continental Congress are not included.) Currently, in addition to the incumbent, Joe Biden, there are five living former presidents: Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Donald Trump.

Current living presidents
Living presidents as of (from oldest to youngest):

Timeline
Table showing the number of presidents alive at each moment in United States history.

Most and fewest living presidents
There have been five time periods with six living presidents (i.e., the incumbent and five former presidents):
 * March 4, 1861 to January 18, 1862 – Martin Van Buren, John Tyler, Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, and Abraham Lincoln
 * January 20, 1993 to April 22, 1994 – Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and Bill Clinton (six consecutive presidents)
 * January 20, 2001 to June 5, 2004 – Ford, Carter, Reagan, G. H. W. Bush, Clinton, and George W. Bush (six consecutive presidents)
 * January 20, 2017 to November 30, 2018 – Carter, G. H. W. Bush, Clinton, G. W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump
 * January 20, 2021 to present – Carter, Clinton, G. W. Bush, Obama, Trump, and Joe Biden

There have been six time periods when the incumbent president was the only living president, having no living predecessors:
 * April 30, 1789 to March 4, 1797 – George Washington, who, being the first president, had no predecessors
 * December 14, 1799 to March 4, 1801 – John Adams, after the death of his only predecessor, George Washington
 * July 31, 1875 to March 4, 1877 – Ulysses S. Grant, after the death of his last living predecessor, Andrew Johnson
 * June 24, 1908 to March 4, 1909 – Theodore Roosevelt, after the death of his last living predecessor, Grover Cleveland
 * January 5, 1933 to March 4, 1933 – Herbert Hoover, after the death of his last living predecessor, Calvin Coolidge
 * January 22, 1973 to August 9, 1974 – Richard Nixon, after the death of his last living predecessor, Lyndon B. Johnson

Notably, Richard Nixon is the only person to have been both the only living U.S. president (from January 1973 to August 1974) and one of six living presidents (from January 1993 to April 1994).

Living presidents gallery
There have been several gatherings of all presidents alive at that time. Below are photographs of groups of persons who, at one time or another, comprised "all living presidents".