Many people look forward to retirement at 65. But in the Senate, the median age is nearly 65, with 49 members at least that old.
While a majority of the Senate is still from the baby boom generation, Gen X membership in the House now exceeds that of boomers for the first time: More than 180 representatives are from Gen X, and 170 are boomers.
To serve in the House, a member ; a senator must be at least 30. So those in Gen Z, the oldest of whom turn 28 this year, won’t be eligible for the Senate for another two years, at least.
Five millennials — including Vice President-elect JD Vance, R-Ohio, who has yet to resign from his seat — sit in the Senate, the youngest of whom is still Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., who turns 38 in February.
Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa — who has been a senator since 1981, and who would have been in elementary school when Jimmy Carter was in high school — is the oldest in the Senate, at 91 years old.
In the House, Maxwell Frost, D-Fla., is beginning his second term as still the only Gen Z member of Congress, at age 27. At 87 1/2 years old, Eleanor Norton, D.C.’s Democratic delegate, is the oldest member.
Between both chambers, 20 members are 80 years or older.
The median age in the U.S. is 39.1 years old, .
