User:Canuckian89/United States Secretaries of Education

This is a list of United States Secretaries of Education in order of longevity. There are currently nine Secretaries on the list and eight living Secretaries. The list is in descending order and is correct as of August 6, 2024. The oldest Secretary is Shirley Hufstedler. She is currently 98 years, 348 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	Shirley Hufstedler	August 24, 1925	Living	98 years, 348 days	36,142 days
2	Lauro Cavazos	January 4, 1927	Living	97 years, 215 days	35,644 days
3	Richard Riley	January 2, 1933	Living	91 years, 217 days	33,454 days
4	Rod Paige	June 17, 1933	Living	91 years, 50 days	33,288 days
5	Terrel Bell	November 11, 1921	June 22, 1996	74 years, 224 days	27,252 days
6	Andrew L. Alexander	July 3, 1940	Living	84 years, 34 days	30,715 days
7	William Bennett	July 31, 1943	Living	81 years, 6 days	29,592 days
8	Margaret Spellings	November 30, 1957	Living	66 years, 250 days	24,356 days
9	Arne Duncan	November 6, 1964	Living	59 years, 274 days	21,823 days

Secretaries of Education	9
Living	8
Deceased	1