The median age of your Florida lawmaker is 52 years old
The median age of a Florida lawmaker — including the Florida House, Florida Senate, the Congressional delegation and the two U.S. Senators — is 52 years old, according to a tallyED.com analysis.
Here is a breakdown of the median ages for the four different levels of government who are serving the Sunshine State in 2023:
→ The median age of a Florida State Senator is 53 years (note: tallyED was unable to confirm the age of 1 State Senator)
→ The median age of a Florida State Representative is 51 years (note: tallyED was unable to confirm the ages of 6 State Representatives)
→ The median age of a member of Congress from Florida is 56 years
→ The median age of a U.S. Senator from Florida is 61 years
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The youngest member of the Florida Senate is 29-year-old Alexis Calatayud, who represents District 38. The oldest member of the Florida Senate is Victor Torres, of District 25, who turned 76 earlier this year.
State Rep. Juan Carlos Porras, who represents the Miami area, is the youngest member of the Florida House of Representatives, at 26 years old. State Rep. Sam Killebrew, at 78, is the oldest member of the Florida House.
Frederica Wilson, who represents portions of Miami-Dade and Broward counties, is the oldest member of Congress from Florida at 80 years old. Rep. Maxwell Frost, 26, of the Orlando area, is the youngest member of Florida's Congressional delegation and the youngest member of the entire 118th Congress.
We compiled the data for Florida lawmakers to compare the ages of elected officials across the national landscape.
The U.S. House of Representatives is getting younger: The median age of the 118th Congress is 57.9 years, which is a year younger than the 117th Congress. The median age of Americans is 38, according to the most recent U.S. Census data.
The median age of Florida's Congressional delegation is 56 years old, slightly below the median age of the entire 118th Congress.
The Senate's median age, however, continues to rise, according to a Pew Research Center analysis. The new Senate's median age is 65.3 years, up from 64.8 in the 117th Congress, 63.6 in the 116th and 62.4 in the 115th.
The ages of Florida's two U.S. Senators, are 70 (Rick Scott) and 52 (Marco Rubio), so slightly younger (61) than their colleagues in the other 49 states.