User:Canuckian89/United States Secretaries of Health and Human Services
This is a list of United States Secretaries of Health and Human Services in order of longevity. There are currently twenty-one Secretaries on the list and ten living Secretaries. The list is in descending order and is correct as of June 2, 2024. The oldest living Secretary is Otis R. Bowen. He is currently 106 years, 97 days old.
To account for the different number of leap days within the life of each Secretary, two measures of longevity are given. The first is the number of whole years the Secretary lived, and the number of days past their last birthday. The second lists the total number of days lived by the Secretary.
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Rank |
Secretary |
Date of Birth |
Date of Death |
Longevity (Years, Days) |
Longevity (Days) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Otis R. Bowen | February 26, 1918 | Living | 106 years, 97 days | 38,813 days |
2 | Arthur S. Flemming | June 12, 1905 | September 7, 1996 | 91 years, 87 days | 33,325 days |
3 | Oveta C. Hobby | January 19, 1905 | August 16, 1995 | 90 years, 209 days | 33,081 days |
4 | John W. Gardner | October 8, 1912 | February 16, 2002 | 89 years, 131 days | 32,638 days |
5 | Caspar Weinberger | August 18, 1917 | March 28, 2006 | 88 years, 222 days | 32,364 days |
6 | Anthony J. Celebrezze | September 4, 1910 | October 29, 1998 | 88 years, 55 days | 32,197 days |
7 | Abraham A. Ribicoff | April 9, 1910 | February 22, 1998 | 87 years, 319 days | 32,096 days |
8 | Richard Schweiker | June 1, 1926 | Living | 98 years, 1 day | 35,796 days |
9 | Marion B. Folsom | November 23, 1893 | September 27, 1976 | 82 years, 309 days | 30,258 days |
10 | Joseph A. Califano | May 15, 1931 | Living | 93 years, 18 days | 33,987 days |
11 | Margaret Heckler | June 21, 1931 | Living | 92 years, 347 days | 33,950 days |
12 | Elliot Richardson | July 20, 1920 | December 31, 1999 | 79 years, 164 days | 29,018 days |
13 | Louis W. Sullivan | November 3, 1933 | Living | 90 years, 212 days | 33,084 days |
14 | Forrest D. Mathews | December 6, 1935 | Living | 88 years, 179 days | 32,321 days |
15 | Wilbur J. Cohen | June 10, 1913 | May 17, 1987 | 73 years, 341 days | 27,004 days |
16 | Donna Shalala | February 14, 1941 | Living | 83 years, 109 days | 30,424 days |
17 | Tommy Thompson | November 19, 1941 | Living | 82 years, 196 days | 30,146 days |
18 | Robert Finch | October 9, 1925 | October 10, 1995 | 70 years, 1 day | 25,568 days |
19 | Kathleen Sebelius | May 15, 1948 | Living | 76 years, 18 days | 27,777 days |
20 | Michael O. Leavitt | February 11, 1951 | Living | 73 years, 112 days | 26,775 days |
21 | Patricia R. Harris | May 31, 1924 | March 23, 1985 | 60 years, 296 days | 22,211 days |
Secretaries of Health and Human Services | 21 |
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Living | 10 |
Deceased | 11 |