age to become vice president
A president must: 1  be a natural born U.S. citizen. 2  be at least 35 years of age. 3  have lived in the United States for at least 14 years to be president. This does not have to be consecutive or even the 14 years leading up to becoming president. Obviously, a lot more is needed than this. The candidate must be acceptable to a large number of people across the nation. A president must: 1  be a natural born U.S. citizen. Someone may be born abroad, but only if both parents were citizens of the United States. 2  be at least 35 years of age. The youngest president elected was 43 years old. 3  have lived in the United States for at least 14 years to be president. The US Constitution requires you to be at least 35 years old in order to be eligible to take the office of the President of the United States. I bolded the relevant portion of the following quote from the US Constitution. US Constitution, Article II, Section 1, Paragraph 5. First, Presidents must be thirty-five years of age or older. In contrast, Senators must be at least thirty years old, and Representatives no less than twenty-five years old. Second, the President must have been a Resident of the United States for fourteen years. No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States. Article II, Section 1, Clause 5. The Constitution imposes three eligibility requirements on the Presidencyâ€”based on the officeholder's age, residency, and citizenshipâ€”that must be satisfied at the time of taking office. By virtue of the Twelfth Amendment, the qualifications for Vice President are the same. One must also be at least 35 years of age to be president. John F. Kennedy was the youngest person to be elected president; he was 43 years old when he was inaugurated in 1961. There is no maximum age limit set forth in the Constitution. Article II, Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution imposes only three eligibility requirements on persons serving as president – based on the officeholder’s age, time of residency in the U.S., and citizenship status. 1  Under the Twelfth Amendment, the same three qualifications apply to the Vice President of the United States. 1  Only natural-born. 2  One must also be at least 35 years of age to be president. 3  Finally, one must have lived in the United States for at least 14 years to be president, in addition to being a natural-born citizen. The median age of accession is roughly 53 years and 6 months, which is how old John Adams was at his inauguration. The youngest vice president to assume office was John C. Breckinridge, at the age of 36 years, 47 days. Serving only one term, he became and remains the youngest at the time of leaving office. The oldest vice president to assume office was Alben W. Barkley, at the age of 71 years, 57 days. He was also the oldest in office when he left office. The oldest living vice president is George H. W. Bush, born on June 12, 1924 (age 7009292982400000000♠92 years, 307 days); he is also the oldest living president. So that would mean that a vice president would have to meet the requirements to be president laid out in Article II of the Constitution. Principally, the person would have to be born in the United States, be at least 35 years of age and have been a resident of this country for the preceding 14 years. So far, so good. Maybe a former president, like Bill Clinton, could serve as vice president.
35 years