President Joe Biden

A second White House term for U.S. President Joe Biden would put him on a relatively short list of leaders of democratic nations whose ascent — or return to ...

In Canada, the most recent prime minister of similar age to Biden was Louis St-Laurent, who was 75 when the Liberals lost the 1957 general election. And while Biden may already be 80, Jena said the U.S. Quirk, a specialist in U.S. Yet journalist Greenfield said the U.S. "He's up against a lot of cultural and political biases, and then he's also vulnerable to political attacks. He was 80 when he left office in 1955. Voters chose to re-elect Reagan, then 73, and already [the eldest American president to serve](https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/former-u-s-president-ronald-reagan-dead-1.508056). A second Biden victory would put the U.S. Paul Quirk, a professor of political science at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, said Biden carries "enormous amounts of experience" to his daily job in the White House, stretching back to his time as a senator and vice-president. The Conservative prime minister was the oldest to lead his country in decades at that time and the oldest since. [in his sixth term as leader](https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/netanyahu-israel-prime-minister-1.6699880), will turn 74 this fall, while India's Narendra Modi — [in the midst of a second term as prime minister](https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/india-vote-count-modi-1.5146052) — will turn 73. There's just no reason to say that."