List of U.S. Presidents by height order

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5′4″ (163 cm)
James Madison
6′4″ (193 cm)
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6′4″ (193 cm)
Abraham Lincoln

This is a list of U.S. Presidents by height order. The average U.S. President is 5′10″ (178 centimeters) tall.

Rank President Imperial
units
SI (cm)
1 Abraham Lincoln 6′4″ 193
2 Lyndon B. Johnson 6′3″ 191
3 Bill Clinton 6′2½″ 189
4 Thomas Jefferson 6′2½″ 189
5 Chester Alan Arthur 6′2″ 188
6 George H.W. Bush 6′2″ 188
7 Franklin D. Roosevelt 6′2″ 188
8 George Washington 6′1½″ 187
9 Andrew Jackson 6′1″ 185
10 Ronald Reagan 6′1″ 185
11 James Buchanan 6′0″ 183
12 Gerald Ford 6′0″ 183
13 James Garfield 6′0″ 183
14 Warren G. Harding 6′0″ 183
15 John F. Kennedy 6′0″ 183
16 James Monroe 6′0″ 183
17 William Howard Taft 6′0″ 183
18 John Tyler 6′0″ 183
19 Richard Nixon 5′11½″ 182
20 George W. Bush 5′11″ 180
21 Grover Cleveland 5′11″ 180
22 Herbert Hoover 5′11″ 180
23 Woodrow Wilson 5′11″ 180
24 Dwight D. Eisenhower 5′10½″ 179
25 Calvin Coolidge 5′10″ 178
26 Andrew Johnson 5′10″ 178
27 Franklin Pierce 5′10″ 178
28 Jimmy Carter 5′9½″ 177
29 Millard Fillmore 5′9″ 175
30 Harry S. Truman 5′9″ 175
31 Rutherford B. Hayes 5′8½″ 174
32 Theodore Roosevelt 5′8½″ 174
33 Ulysses S. Grant 5′8″ 173
34 William Henry Harrison 5′8″ 173
35 James K. Polk 5′8″ 173
36 Zachary Taylor 5′8″ 173
37 John Adams 5′7″ 170
38 John Quincy Adams 5′7″ 170
39 William McKinley 5′7″ 170
40 Benjamin Harrison 5′6″ 168
41 Martin Van Buren 5′6″ 168
42 James Madison 5′4″ 163

Units used:

  • Imperial units are used in the Imperial system, which is more commonly known as the English system or British system of measure. Units used here are feet & inches in the prime notation (See foot for more details on the notation)
  • SI is the Internation System of Units, which is more commonly known as the metric system. Units used here are centimeters.

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