age us senate
The United States Constitution requires Senators to be at least 30 years of age. Age does not determine seniority in the Senate. As of October 18, 2015, 5 senators are in their 80s, 18 are in their 70s, 32 are in their 60s, 30 are in their 50s, 14 are in their 40s, and 1 is in his 30s. 1  The median age of currently serving Senators is 7009195864480000000♠ 62 years, 24 days. The constitution states that to become a senator an applicant must meet specific age, citizenship and state status. The U.S. Senate was formed in 1787 by a convention informally referred to as the framers of the constitution. James Madison, one of the framers of the Constitution, justified the higher age requirement in the Senate, saying serving as a senator required greater life experience and stability of character, according to the United States Senate (www.senate.gov). The average age in Congress has remained within a rather small range since World War II. The average age in the Senate was 59 in 1945, compared to 62 in 2011. The House has aged more substantially, with the average rising from 53 in 1945 to 57 in 2011. Between those years, average age fluctuated irregularly. Answer: The Constitution lists three requirements for any individual wishing to become a US Senator. A Senator must: 1  be a US citizen for at least nine years when elected to the Senate. 2  be at least 30 years of age. 3  be a resident of the state that the Senator represents. Well, not quite. We figured out the ages of all 100 sitting senators as of Thursday (Colorado Sen. Mark Udall’s 63rd birthday, incidentally), and calculated their median age at 62 years, 2 months. (The average age, as of Thursday, was 61 years, 9 months.). The Senate may get younger still over the next election cycle. After New Jersey Sen. Frank Lautenberg died last month at the age of 89, he was replaced temporarily by Jeff Chiesa, who recently turned 48; Newark Mayor Cory Booker, 44, is widely considered the favorite to win the special election scheduled for October. Yes. The 111 th Congress, which took office in 2009, was the oldest in U.S. history, with an average age of 57 in the House and 63 in the Senate. Eighteen of the 26 senators who are currently 55 or younger were elected or appointed since 2010. We didn’t calculate medians for prior years, but according to a piece earlier this year in Slate, the Senate’s average age at the beginning of the 111th Congress in 2009 was 63; it edged down to 62 by 2011. 1 The median age of currently serving Senators is 7009195864480000000♠ 62 years, 24 days. 2  The median age of taking office for currently serving Senators is 51 years, 75 days. 3  The median length of their Senate terms to date is 7008214228800000000♠ 6 years, 288 days.
The United States Constitution requires Senators to be at least 30 years of age. Age does not determine seniority in the Senate.