<p>Who was our youngest person to serve as President of the U.S.?</p>
<p>The winner gets 100 Delta Dollars, a copy of “Walden,” and a stale cookie.</p>
<p>I guess JFK</p>
<p>Kennedy was the youngest elected US president, but the youngest person to ever serve as U.S. was Theodore Roosevelt, who entered the White House at the age of 42 after the assasination of William McKinley.</p>
<p>Did You Use Google?!?!?!?!</p>
<p>Of course, you get to a point in your life where it does serve you to work smart and not hard. This was a perfect opportunity :)</p>
<p>Op wanted to know who knew the correct answer, not how to get the correct answer.</p>
<p>sybbie, could you explain to me the distinction between “youngest elected US president” and “youngest person to serve as U.S. (president is the missing word?)”? </p>
<p>Is it the wording of it? Serve, as in, not elected but shoved in the job?</p>
<p>Roosevelt wasn’t elected–he assumed office of presidency after mckinley died…So he was the oyungest president but NOT elected into the position. JFK on the other hand, was the youngest ELECTED president.</p>
<p>Bored asked who was the youngest person to serve. Remember there have been men who have served as persident who were not elcted to the office of president, they were VPs who became president upon the death or in NIxon’s case, resignation of the president. </p>
<p>Think about Ford who was not elected to either the office of president or vice president, but still served. He was appointed president following the resignation of Agnew, then became president following Nixon’s resignation.</p>
<p>Roosevelt was vice president who became president following the death of the president.</p>