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Height of all U.S. presidents from 1789 to 2021 (in centimeters)

Characteristic	Height in centimeters (cm)
Abraham Lincoln	193
Lyndon B. Johnson	192
Donald Trump*	191
Thomas Jefferson	189
Chester A. Arthur	188
Bill Clinton	188
George Washington	188
Franklin D. Roosevelt	188
George H. W. Bush	188
Andrew Jackson	185
Ronald Raegan	185
John F Kennedy	185
Barack Obama	185
James Monroe	183
John Tyler	183
Gerald Ford	183
Warren G. Harding	183
James Buchanan	183
James A. Garfield	183
Joe Biden	182
George W. Bush	182
William Howard Taft	182
Herbert Hoover	182
Richard Nixon	182
Woodrow Wilson	180
Grover Cleveland	180
Presidential average	180
Dwight D. Eisenhower	179
Calvin Coolidge	178
Franklin Pierce	178
Andrew Johnson	178
Theodore Roosevelt	178
Jimmy Carter	177
US male average height	175
Harry S. Truman	175
Millard Fillmore	175
Rutherford B. Hayes	174
Zachary Taylor	173
William Henry Harrison	173
Ulysses S. Grant*	173
James K. Polk	173
John Quincy Adams	171
William McKinley	170
John Adams	170
Benjamin Harrison	168
Martin Van Buren	168
James Madison	163

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January 2021

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Survey time period

1789 to 2021

Supplementary notes

All heights have been converted from feet to inches, and then rounded to the nearest full centimeter.

*The source used claims that Ulysses S. Grant was 183cm/6'0", however most other sources suggest that he was 173cm/5'8". The source also claims that Donald Trump is 188cm (6'2"), although official medical reports from June 03, 2020, state that he is 6'3".

The heights in feet(') and inches(") are as follows -
George Washington: 6'2"
John Adams: 5'7"
Thomas Jefferson: 6'2.5"
James Madison: 5'4"
James Monroe: 6'0"
John Quincy Adams: 5'7.5"
Andrew Jackson: 6'1"
Martin Van Buren: 5'6"
William Henry Harrison: 5'8"
John Tyler: 6'0"
James K. Polk: 5'8"
Zachary Taylor: 5'8"
Millard Filmore: 5'9"
Franklin Pierce: 5'10"
James Buchanan: 6'0"
Abraham Lincoln: 6'4"
Andrew Johnson: 5'10"
Ulysses S. Grant: 5'8"
Rutherford B. Hayes: 5'8.5"
James A. Garfield: 6'0"
Chester A. Arthur: 6'2"
Grover Cleveland: 5'11"
Benjamin Harrison: 5'6"
William McKinley: 5'7"
Theodore Roosevelt: 5'10"
William Howard Taft: 5'11.5"
Woodrow Wilson: 5'11"
Warren G. Harding: 6'0"
Calvin Coolidge: 5'10"
Herbert Hoover: 5'11.5"
Franklin D. Roosevelt: 6'2"
Harry S. Truman: 5'9"
Dwight D. Eisenhower: 5'10.5"
John F Kennedy: 6'1"
Lyndon B. Johnson: 6'3.5"
Richard Nixon: 5'11"
Gerald Ford: 6'0"
Jimmy Carter: 5'9.5"
Ronald Raegan: 6'1"
George H. W. Bush: 6'2"
Bill Clinton: 6'2"
George W. Bush: 5'11.5"
Barack Obama: 6'1"
Donald Trump: 6'3"
Joe Biden: 5'11.65"

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The average height of the 45 men who have served as the President of the United States is approximately 180cm (5'11"); this is roughly five centimeters (two inches) taller than the average U.S. male in 2020. Abraham Lincoln has the distinction of being the tallest U.S. president in history, at 193cm (6'4"), while James Madison was the shortest (and lightest) U.S. president at 163cm (5'4").

US presidents are getting taller

Of the ten most recent presidents, only Jimmy Carter has been shorter than the presidential average, while none of the presidents who have served since the beginning of the twentieth century have been shorter than the national average. Since Ronald Reagan became president in 1981, George W. Bush and Joe Biden are the only U.S. president to have been shorter than six feet tall; by just half an inch.

Trump height controversy

Former President Donald Trump made headlines in 2018, when his official height increased from 6'2" (the height from all previously-existing records, including his 2012 drivers license) to 6'3"*. Many in the media speculated that this was to prevent him from being classified as obese according to his body mass index. A number of photos also circulated on social media showing Trump next to (and visibly shorter than) a number of athletes who are officially 6'3", while photos of him standing next to Barack Obama were used to show that he may be closer to his predecessor's height, at 6'1". Nonetheless, Trump's medical report from June 3. 2020, shows that his official height remained at 6'3".