#levi morton

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David Nykl as Levi Morton in Death by Lightning's "The Man from Ohio" (2025)

[deadpresidents]

Your post on vice presidents made me curious about who was the oldest vp was it also Ford?

Gerald Ford is in third place on the list of longest-living Vice Presidents in American history:

LONGEST-LIVING VICE PRESIDENTSAge at Death: VP (POTUS served under)•98 years, 351 days: John Nance Garner (FDR’s 1st VP)•96 years, 0 days: Levi P. Morton (B. Harrison)•93 years, 165 days: Gerald Ford (Nixon’s 2nd)•92 years+: George H.W. Bush (Reagan) [Still living]•90 years, 247 days: John Adams (Washington)•89 years+: Walter Mondale (Carter) [Still living]•88 years, 232 days: Harry S. Truman (FDR’s 3rd)•85 years, 239 days: Charles G. Dawes (Coolidge)•83 years, 82 days: Thomas Jefferson (John Adams)•81 years, 311 days: Hannibal Hamlin (Lincoln’s 1st)•81 years, 104 days: Richard Nixon (Eisenhower)•80 years, 220 days: Aaron Burr (Jefferson’s 1st)•79 years, 231 days: Martin Van Buren (Jackson’s 2nd)•78 years, 234 days: Adlai E. Stevenson (Cleveland’s 2nd)•78 years, 157 days: Alben W. Barkley (Truman)•77 years, 261 days: Spiro Agnew (Nixon’s 1st)•77 years, 42 days: Henry A. Wallace (FDR’s 2nd)•76 years+: Dick Cheney (G.W. Bush) [Still living]•76 years, 14 days: Charles Curtis (Hoover)•74 years+: Joe Biden (Obama) [Still living]•74 years, 60 days: Millard Fillmore (Taylor)•72 years, 268 days: George Clinton (Jefferson’s 2nd/Madison’s 1st)•72 years, 174 days: George M. Dallas (Polk)•71 years, 295 days: John Tyler (W.H. Harrison)•71 years, 79 days: Thomas Riley Marshall (Wilson)•70 years+: Dan Quayle (G.H.W. Bush) [Still living]•70 years, 202 days: Nelson Rockefeller (Ford)•70 years, 129 days: Elbridge Gerry (Madison’s 2nd)•70 years, 33 days: Richard M. Johnson (Van Buren)•69 years+: Al Gore (Clinton) [Still living]•68 years, 13 days: John C. Calhoun (J.Q. Adams/Jackson’s 1st)•67 years, 339 days: William A. Wheeler (Hayes)•67 years, 11 days: William R. D. King (Pierce)•66 years, 231 days: Hubert H. Humphrey (LBJ)•66 years, 214 days: Andrew Johnson (Lincoln’s 2nd)•66 years, 79 days: Thomas A. Hendricks (Cleveland’s 1st)•66 years, 24 days: Charles W. Fairbanks (T. Roosevelt)•64 years, 148 days: Lyndon B. Johnson (JFK)•63 years, 279 days: Henry Wilson (Grant’s 2nd)•61 years, 296 days: Schuyler Colfax (Grant’s 1st)•60 years, 185 days: Calvin Coolidge (Harding)•60 years, 71 days: Theodore Roosevelt (McKinley’s 2nd)•57 years+: Mike Pence (Trump) [Still living]•57 years, 44 days: Chester A. Arthur (Garfield)•57 years, 6 days: James S. Sherman (Taft)•55 years, 171 days: Garret A. Hobart (McKinley’s 1st)•54 years, 116 days: John C. Breckinridge (Buchanan)•50 years, 355 days: Daniel D. Tompkins (Monroe)

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Genealogy

How are the sisters, Lillian Gish (1893-1993) and Dorothy Gish (1898-1968), movie stars of the silent era, Hollywood Walk of Fame, related to -~-~ Levi Morton (1892-1920), Vice-President of the United States of America, 1889-1893?

                                   Ebenezer Barnard + Elizabeth Foster

                                        1696-1764              1695-1753        

                                                                 |                                                    

Salah Barnard                                                          Elizabeth Barnard

 1725-1795                                                                    1730-x              

         +                                                                                   +

Elizabeth Nims                                                              Nathan Frary

 1745-1827                                                                     1719-1794

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Lillian Gish                                                                    Levi Morton

1893-1993                                                                      1892-1920

Dorothy Gish

1898-1968