AGE

Washington Post -The 119th Congress is the second-oldest in history, an analysis of data from Voteview and the @unitedstates project indicates. On average, the current membership of Congress will be 58.1 years old by Dec. 31, tied with the 117th Congress that began in January 2021 and just behind the average 58.6 years seen during the 115th Congress four years before that..

 Driven by a booming economy, there was a baby born in the United States between 1946 and 1964 for every two U.S. residents in 1945. This surge in births forced systems to accommodate them: more services for babies, more elementary schools, more high schools, more soldiers for wars in Southeast Asia and more college students. Eventually, that surge just became America, a country in which a disproportionate number of its residents was born between 1946 and 1964.

But this, very clearly, is why Congress is older: because baby boomers are. A legislator the average age of Congress was born just after the boom. A senator the average age of that chamber was born during it.