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Notably, Richard Nixon is the only person to have been both the only living U.S. president (from January 1973 to August 1974) and one of six living presidents (from January 1993 to April 1994).
Living presidents gallery
There have been several gatherings of all presidents alive at that time. Below are photographs of groups of persons who, at one time or another, comprised "all living presidents".
↑ While by the conventional numbering of U.S. presidents there have been 46 presidents, only 45 individuals have held the office, as Grover Cleveland, the only one to serve non-consecutive terms, is counted twice – as the 22nd and the 24th president.
↑ Future president Joe Biden is also in this December 2018 photograph.
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