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Representative Grace Napolitano, California Democrat, born in 1936.

Representative Bill Pascrell, New Jersey Democrat, born in 1937.

Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, District of Columbia Democrat, born in 1937.

Representative Hal Rogers, Kentucky Republican, born in 1937.

Representative Maxine Waters, California Democrat, born in 1938.

Representative Steny Hoyer, Maryland Democrat, born in 1939.

Representative Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat, born in 1940.

Representative Jim Clyburn, South Carolina Democrat, born in 1940.

Senator Bernie Sanders, Vermont Independent, born in 1941.

A majority of Americans, spanning across political affiliations, favor installing age maximum limits on elected officials, according to an August CBS News poll. In the same poll, 40 percent said the maximum age for elected officials should be 70 years old.

More than a dozen US lawmak- ers are older than President Joe Biden, 80, the oldest US president ever elected. Here are the lawmakers who were born before Biden’s birth on Nov. 20, 1942.

Senator Dianne Feinstein, California Democrat, born in 1933.

Senator Chuck Grassley, Iowa Republican, born in 1933.

Representative Danny Davis, Illinois Democrat, born in 1941.

Representative John Carter, Texas Republican, born in 1941.

Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican, born in February 1942.

Representative Frederica Wilson, Florida Democrat, born on November 5, 1942. Bloomberg News

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