Ranking

Age

Stature

Career

Younger

Abraham Lincoln	6' 4'' / 1.93 m
Lyndon Johnson	6' 3'' / 1.91 m
Thomas Jefferson	6' 2.5'' / 1.89 m
George Washington	6' 2'' / 1.88 m
Franklin D. Roosevelt	6' 2'' / 1.88 m
George H.W. Bush	6' 2'' / 1.88 m
Bill Clinton	6' 2'' / 1.88 m
Donald Trump	6' 2'' / 1.88 m
Barack Obama	6' 1½'' / 1.87 m
Andrew Jackson	6' 1'' / 1.85 m
Chester Arthur	6' 1'' / 1.85 m
Ronald Reagan	6' 1'' / 1.85 m

James Madison	5' 4'' / 1.63 m
Benjamin Harrison	5' 6'' / 1.68 m
Martin Van Buren	5' 6'' / 1.68 m
John Quincy Adams	5' 7'' / 1.70 m
John Adams	5' 7'' / 1.70 m
William McKinley	5' 7'' / 1.70 m
Zachary Taylor	5' 8'' / 1.73 m
James Knox Polk	5' 8'' / 1.73 m
William Henry Harrison	5' 8'' / 1.73 m
Ulysses S. Grant	5' 8'' / 1.73 m
Rutherford B. Hayes	5' 8'' / 1.73 m

Average height	5' 11'' / 1.80 m
avg. of 18th cent.	5' 11'' / 1.79 m
avg. of 19th cent.	5' 10'' / 1.77 m
avg. of 20th cent.	6'  1'' / 1.85 m
avg. of 21st cent.	6'  0'' / 1.83 m

	BMI*	weight
William Howard Taft	42.3	332 lb.
Grover Cleveland	34.6	275 lb.
William McKinley	31.1	233 lb.
Zachary Taylor	30.2	230 lb.
Theodore Roosevelt	30.2	237 lb.
Donald Trump	30.0	245 lb.
Chester A. Arthur	28.7	238 lb.
Bill Clinton	28.3	234 lb.
Herbert Hoover	27.7	220 lb.
John Quincy Adams	27.2	203 lb.
James Buchanan	26.9	217 lb.

Note: (*) BMI= Body Mass Index
Body Mass Index = weight in kg / height in meter*2

	BMI*	weight
James Madison	17.0	122 lb.
Andrew Jackson	19.0	154 lb.
John Tyler	20.0	160 lb.
Franklin Pierce	20.6	162 lb.
William Henry Harrison	21.2	162 lb.
Calvin Coolidge	21.2	166 lb.
Abraham Lincoln	21.7	185 lb.
Thomas Jefferson	22.0	181 lb.
Barack Obama	22.1	180 lb.
John F. Kennedy	22.6	182 lb.