Before they became the most powerful people on the planet, American presidents were just ordinary mortals. See photos of American presidents from their youth, which prove that they were once not so different from us.
Before they became American presidents, they were Barack Obama, Theodore Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Abraham Lincoln, Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford, Bill Clinton, Franklin Roosevelt, Jimmy Carter and other American presidents entirely ordinary teenagers.
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We attach as proof a series of portraits American presidents from their early youth.
This is what American presidents looked like in their youth:
Richard Nixon, 20 years old
Bill Clinton, 22 and 26
Abraham Lincoln in his late thirties (first known portrait)
George HW Bush, 18
Barack Obama, 18 years old
George W. Bush, 19 years old
George W. Bush, 21 years old
Harry Truman, 22 and 33
John F. Kennedy, 21 and 20
Jimmy Carter, 18 years old
Ronald Reagan, 29 years old
Gerald Ford, 18 and 20 years
Franklin Roosevelt, 18
Theodore Roosevelt, 20 years old
Dwight Eisenhower, 25 and 29
Woodrow Wilson, 19
Lyndon Johnson, 18
Benjamin Harrison, 17 years
James Garfield, 16 years old
Calvin Coolidge, about 20 years old
William McKinley, 21 years
Ulysses S. Grant, 23 years old
Herbert Hoover, 25 years
Rutherford B. Hayes, 30 years
William Henry Harrison, 40 years
