User:Canuckian89/United States Secretaries of Health and Human Services

This is a list of United States Secretaries of Health and Human Services in order of longevity. There are currently twenty-one Secretaries on the list and ten living Secretaries. The list is in descending order and is correct as of June 3, 2024. The oldest living Secretary is Otis R. Bowen. He is currently 106 years, 98 days old.

To account for the different number of leap days within the life of each Secretary, two measures of longevity are given. The first is the number of whole years the Secretary lived, and the number of days past their last birthday. The second lists the total number of days lived by the Secretary.

List

Rank	Secretary	Date of Birth	Date of Death	Longevity (Years, Days)	Longevity (Days)
1	Otis R. Bowen	February 26, 1918	Living	106 years, 98 days	38,814 days
2	Arthur S. Flemming	June 12, 1905	September 7, 1996	91 years, 87 days	33,325 days
3	Oveta C. Hobby	January 19, 1905	August 16, 1995	90 years, 209 days	33,081 days
4	John W. Gardner	October 8, 1912	February 16, 2002	89 years, 131 days	32,638 days
5	Caspar Weinberger	August 18, 1917	March 28, 2006	88 years, 222 days	32,364 days
6	Anthony J. Celebrezze	September 4, 1910	October 29, 1998	88 years, 55 days	32,197 days
7	Abraham A. Ribicoff	April 9, 1910	February 22, 1998	87 years, 319 days	32,096 days
8	Richard Schweiker	June 1, 1926	Living	98 years, 2 days	35,797 days
9	Marion B. Folsom	November 23, 1893	September 27, 1976	82 years, 309 days	30,258 days
10	Joseph A. Califano	May 15, 1931	Living	93 years, 19 days	33,988 days
11	Margaret Heckler	June 21, 1931	Living	92 years, 348 days	33,951 days
12	Elliot Richardson	July 20, 1920	December 31, 1999	79 years, 164 days	29,018 days
13	Louis W. Sullivan	November 3, 1933	Living	90 years, 213 days	33,085 days
14	Forrest D. Mathews	December 6, 1935	Living	88 years, 180 days	32,322 days
15	Wilbur J. Cohen	June 10, 1913	May 17, 1987	73 years, 341 days	27,004 days
16	Donna Shalala	February 14, 1941	Living	83 years, 110 days	30,425 days
17	Tommy Thompson	November 19, 1941	Living	82 years, 197 days	30,147 days
18	Robert Finch	October 9, 1925	October 10, 1995	70 years, 1 day	25,568 days
19	Kathleen Sebelius	May 15, 1948	Living	76 years, 19 days	27,778 days
20	Michael O. Leavitt	February 11, 1951	Living	73 years, 113 days	26,776 days
21	Patricia R. Harris	May 31, 1924	March 23, 1985	60 years, 296 days	22,211 days

Secretaries of Health and Human Services	21
Living	10
Deceased	11