America the Gerontocracy

Read: https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/09/03/america-gerontocracy-problem-politics-old-politicians-trump-biden-sanders-227986

Donald Trump is 73.
Joe Biden is 76.
Bernie Sanders is 77.
Elizabeth Warren is 70.

Time for some fresh blood?  It won't happen anytime soon.  The next President of the US will probably be an old white guy, either Trump or Biden.

Kamala Harris is 54.
Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House, is 79.
Kevin McCarthy, the Republic House Minority Leader, is 54.
Mitch McConnell, the Majority Leader of the Senate, is 77.
Chuck Schumer, the Senate Minority Leader, is 68.
Mike Pence, Vice President, is 60.

Jimmy Carter is 94
Rosalyn Carter is 92
Bill Clinton is 73.
Hillary Clinton is 71.
George W Bush is 73.
Barrack Obama is now 58.
Newt Gingrich is 76
Al Gore is 71
John Kerry is 75
Bob Dole is 96
Elizabeth Dole is 83
Mitt Romney is 72
Ron Paul is 84
Jerry Brown is 81
Donald Rumsfeld is 87
Dick Cheney is 78
Colin Powell is 82

Jerry Nadler, archnemesis of Trump, is 72.
Robert Mueller is 75.
Rudy Giuliani is 75.
James Clapper, former Director of National Intelligence, is 78

Paul Manafort, the now disgraced presidential adviser, is 70.
Bernie Madoff is 81.  He was sentenced to 150 years in prison in 2009.
Bill Cosby is 82. He was sentenced to prison in September 2018.
OJ Simpson is 72.

On the Supreme Court:
John Roberts is 64.
Clarence Thomas is 71.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg is 86.
Steven Breyer is 81.
Samuel Alito is 69.
Sonia Sotomayor is 65.
Elena Kagan is 59.
Neil Gorsuch is 52.
Brett Kavanaugh is 54.

There are also 10 members of Congress over 80:
Sen. Dianne Feinstein is 85.
Sen. Chuck Grassley is 85.
Sen. Orrin Hatch is 84.
Sen. Richard Shelby is 84.
Sen. Jim Inhofe is 84.
Sen. Pat Roberts is 82.
Rep Eddie Bernice Johnson is 82
Rep Don Young is 85
Rep Sander Levin is 87
Rep Sam Johnson is 88
Rep Maxine Waters is 81
Sen Joe Manchin is 71
Lester Wolff, former representative from New York, is 100
Neal Smith, former rep from Iowa, is 99

I don't see a list of cabinet members by age, but here are some of them:
Wilbur Ross, Secretary of Commerce is 81.
Don Coats, Director of National Intelligence, is 75
Sonny Purdue, Secretary of Agriculture, is 72.
William Barr, Attorney General, is 69.
Rick Perry, Secretary of Energy, is 69.
Ben Carson, Secretary of HUD is 67.
Elaine Chao, Secretary of Transportation, is 66.
Betsy Devos, Secretary of Education, is 61.
Steven Mnuchin, Secretary of Treasury, is 56.
Patrick Pizzella, Secretary of Labor, is 55.
Mike Pompeo, Secretary of State, is 55.
Mark Esper, Secretary of Defense, is also 55.
Alex Azar, Secretary of HHS, is 52.
David Bernhardt, Secretary of the Interior, is 50.  He is probably the youngest.
Jerome Powell, Federal Reserve Chairman, is 66.

Janet Yellen, former Fed chair, is now 73.
Paul Volcker, former Fed chair, is 92
Alan Greenspan, former Fed chair, is 93
Jeff Sessions, former Attorney General, is now 72.
Jim Mattis, former Secretary of Defense, is now 68.
Rex Tillerson, former Secretary of State, is now 67.
David Stockman is 72

Governor Kay Ivey of Alabama is 74.

Actors:
Arnold Schwarzenegger is 72
Sylvester Stallone is 73
Chuck Norris is 78
Michael Douglas is 74
Kirk Douglas, his father, is still alive at 102
William Shatner ("Kirk") is 88
Leonard Nimoy ("Spock") is 83.
Nichelle Nichols ("Uhura") is 86
George Takei ("Sulu") is 82
Walter Koenig ("Chekov") is 83
Harrison Ford is 77
George Lucas is 75
Mark Hamill is 67
Billy Dee Williams ("Lando Calrissian") is 82
James Earl Jones (voice of Darth Vader) is 88
David Prowse ("Darth Vader") is 84
Steven Spielberg is 72
Clint Eastwood is 89
Sean Connery is 89
Martin Sheen is 79
Christopher Walken is 76
Christopher Lloyd ("Doc") is 80
Al Pacino is 79
Robert De Niro is 76
Joe Pesci is 76
Robert Duvall is 88.
Woody Allen is 83
Willie Mays, baseball legend, is still alive at 87.
Betty White is 97.
Gene Hackman is 89.
Dustin Hoffman is 82.
Michael Caine is 86.
Donald Sutherland is 84.
Hal Holbrook is 87
Angela Lansbury is 93.
Dick Van Dyke is 93.
Julie Andrews is 83
Christopher Plummer ("The Sound of Music") is 89
Mel Brooks is 93.
Sidney Poitier is 92.
Jerry Stiller (father of George Costanza) is 92
Max von Sydow is 90
Ed Asner is 89
Robert Wagner is 89
John Astin ("Gomez Addams") is 89
Kim Novak is 86
Brigette Bardot is 84
Carol Burnett is 86
Joan Collins is 86
Alan Arkin is 85
Alan Alda is 83
Loretta Swit is 81
Mike Farrell is 80
Jamie Farr ("Corporal Klinger" in MASH) is 85
Richard Chamberlain is 85
Shirley Maclaine is 85
Warren Beatty is 82
Warren Buffet is 89
Charlie Munger is 95
Peter Lynch is 75
Carl Icahn is 83
George Soros is 89
Brazilian billionaire Jorge Paulo Lemann is 80
Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim is 79
Larry Ellison is 75
Richard Branson is 69
Bill Gates is 63
John McAfee is 73.
Sophia Loren is 84
Judi Dench ("M" in 007) is 84
Judd Hirsch is 84
Danny Devito is 74
Jack Nicholson is 82
Dianne Keaton is 73
Morgan Freeman is 81
Tony Bennett is 92
Patrick Stewart is 78
Ian McKellen is 79
Anthony Hopkins is 81
Paul Hogan ("Crocodile Dundee") is 79
Ted Danson ("Sam Malone" on Cheers) is 71
Shelly Long ("Dianne Chambers") is 70
George Wendt ("Norm") is 70
John Ratzenberger ("Cliff Clavin") is 72
Shelly Duvall is 70
Rhea Perlman is 71
Meryl Streep is 70
Martin Scorsese is 76
Alex Tribek (Jeopardy) is 79
Chevy Chase is 75
Goldie Hawn is 73
Steve Martin is 74
Richard Dreyfuss is 71
Linda Rondstadt is 73
Linda Evans is 76
Raquel Welch is 79
Olivia Newton-John is 71
John Voight is 80
Lee Travino (golfer) is 79
Lee Majors is 80
David Letterman is 72
Robert Redford is 83
Barbra Streisand is 77

Queen Elizabeth of England is 93.
Prince Philip is 97
Prince Charles is 70
Camilla is 72

Pope Francis is 82
retired Pope Benedict XVI is 92

And look at this list of aging rock stars:
from https://theweek.com/articles/861750/coming-death-just-about-every-rock-legend
Bob Dylan (78 years old); Paul McCartney (77); Paul Simon (77) and Art Garfunkel (77); Carole King (77); Brian Wilson (77); Mick Jagger (76) and Keith Richards (75); Joni Mitchell (75); Jimmy Page (75) and Robert Plant (71); Ray Davies (75); Roger Daltrey (75) and Pete Townshend (74); Roger Waters (75) and David Gilmour (73); Rod Stewart (74); Eric Clapton (74); Debbie Harry (74); Neil Young (73); Van Morrison (73); Bryan Ferry (73); Elton John (72); Don Henley (72); James Taylor (71); Jackson Browne (70); Billy Joel (70); and Bruce Springsteen (69, but turning 70 next month). 
Willie Nelson is 85
Dolly Parton is 73
Loretta Lynn is 87
Kenny Rogers is 81
Kris Kristofferson is 83
Mike Love (Beach Boys) is 78
Al Jardine (Beach Boys) is 77

Barbara Walters is 89
Ted Koppel is 79
Dan Rather is 87
Tom Brokaw is 79
Jim Lehrer is 85
Dianne Sawyer is 73
Wolf Blitzer is 71
Ted Turner is 80
Jane Fonda is 81
Connie Chung is 73
Roger Mudd is 91
Chris Wallace is 71
Bernard Shaw is 79
Michael Savage is 77
Bryant Gumbel is 70
Geraldo Rivera is 76
Jerome Corsi is 73
George Will is 78
Lesley Stahl is 77
Bob Woodward is 76
Carl Bernstein is 75
John Dean is 80
G. Gordon Liddy is 83
Larry King is 85

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Update 9/16/19:
Legendary Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Ric Ocasek dies of natural causes.  He was either 70 or 75. Also, Eddie Money died at age 70.
John Paul Stevens died in July at age 99.
Ross Perot died in July at 89.
Lee Iacoca died at 94
Gloria Vanderbilt died at 95
Bart Starr died at 85
Doris Day died at 97
Cokie Roberts died 9/17/19 at age 75
Diahann Carroll died 10/4/19 at age 84
Larry Junstrom from the band Lynyrd Skynyrd died Oct 5 at age 70.
Elijah Cummings dies 10/17/19 at age 68

Wow, half of these people will probably be dead within 2 years.  I don't plan on commenting every time some old person dies, but I might for a couple of weeks.