The oldest government in history – By Annie Fu, Walt Hickey, and Shayanne Gal (Business Insider) / Sept 13, 2022
America’s gerontocracy is disconnecting Congress from the rest of the country, an Insider data analysis reveals.
America has always been governed by a class of political leaders older than the population. This has largely been the case going back to the early 1800s, when the median age of American was about 17 years old — and the median age of a member of Congress was 44. For the bulk of the 19th and 20th centuries, the country has gradually aged as Congress has gradually aged.
But then, in the early 1990s, something changed. Congress began getting much older, much faster. This chart shows how Congress and federal judges have gotten older over time, from the founding of our nation until today.
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