Generations of American Leaders: Leadership Shares

Generations of American Leaders

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Leadership Shares

Leadership shares refer to each generation’s share of all leaders, year by year, since 1789. The share is calculated separately for three U.S. bodies: all senators, all representatives, and all governors. “National” leadership shares are the unweighted average of the shares in these three bodies.

Share by Congress and GenerationNational (1789–2023)
Congressional…		Generation
Start Year	Number	Awak	Lib	Rep	Comp	Tran	Gild	Prog	Miss	Lost	GI	Sil	Boom	GenX	Mill
2013	113th										0.34	10.74	59.56	29.19	0.17
2015	114th											8.13	57.55	34.00	0.33
2017	115th											6.61	55.54	37.02	0.83
2019	116th											4.93	49.32	41.84	3.91
2021	117th											3.74	46.18	44.31	5.77
2023	118th										0.17	2.55	40.14	48.64	8.50
1993	103rd										7.51	52.09	40.07	0.33
1995	104th										5.12	45.45	47.93	1.49
1997	105th										3.36	40.84	52.94	2.86
1999	106th										2.71	37.56	55.84	3.89
2001	107th										1.84	33.95	57.69	6.52
2003	108th										1.53	29.03	61.46	7.98
2005	109th										1.35	26.06	62.77	9.81
2007	110th										1.17	21.78	64.49	12.56
2009	111th										0.85	19.56	63.44	16.16
2011	112th										0.51	14.75	60.17	24.58
1971	92nd									5.69	66.22	27.93	0.17
1973	93rd									3.34	60.54	35.95	0.17
1975	94th									2.33	50.00	45.00	2.67
1977	95th									1.00	41.69	52.16	5.15
1979	96th									0.34	34.17	57.79	7.71
1981	97th									0.17	26.30	61.64	11.89
1983	98th									0.17	21.01	61.68	17.14
1985	99th									0.17	19.80	60.73	19.30
1987	100th									0.17	16.28	59.56	23.99
1989	101st									0.17	13.02	59.27	27.55
1991	102nd										11.71	56.86	31.44
1953	83rd								6.48	46.68	46.68	0.17
1955	84th								4.75	43.22	51.86	0.17
1957	85th								4.21	38.38	57.24	0.17
1959	86th								2.32	29.47	66.39	1.82
1961	87th								1.48	26.64	67.93	3.95
1963	88th								0.67	19.97	72.05	7.32
1965	89th								0.33	13.52	73.29	12.85
1967	90th								0.34	10.25	71.76	17.65
1969	91st									7.45	69.70	22.85
1929	71st						0.16	5.83	74.60	19.26	0.16
1931	72nd							3.43	70.26	25.98	0.33
1933	73rd							1.83	61.23	35.44	1.50
1935	74th							0.83	51.75	43.91	3.51
1937	75th							0.33	44.08	50.33	5.26
1939	76th							0.65	36.66	53.68	9.00
1941	77th							0.49	30.16	56.89	12.46
1943	78th							0.17	27.08	57.14	15.61
1945	79th							0.16	22.35	56.93	20.55
1947	80th								15.64	55.07	29.28
1949	81st								11.30	52.82	35.88
1951	82nd								8.32	50.92	40.77
1913	63rd						2.64	33.33	63.37	0.66
1915	64th						1.69	30.24	67.06	1.01
1917	65th						1.46	24.64	72.12	1.78
1919	66th						0.83	20.63	75.41	3.14
1921	67th						0.66	18.48	75.41	5.45
1923	68th						0.49	12.85	77.92	8.73
1925	69th						0.17	10.18	76.96	12.69
1927	70th						0.17	8.64	75.08	16.11
1889	51st					6.20	58.06	35.33	0.41
1891	52nd					2.69	55.28	40.17	1.86
1893	53rd					1.75	48.35	47.38	2.52
1895	54th					0.80	38.97	53.08	7.16
1897	55th					0.59	30.31	59.06	10.04
1899	56th					0.19	24.08	61.17	14.56
1901	57th					0.20	22.00	58.94	18.86
1903	58th					0.19	18.15	54.44	27.22
1905	59th					0.18	14.76	51.48	33.58
1907	60th					0.18	12.02	48.45	39.34
1909	61st						8.93	46.45	44.63
1911	62nd						4.78	41.59	53.63
1873	43rd					33.89	64.69	1.42
1875	44th					25.47	72.66	1.87
1877	45th					20.85	77.01	2.13
1879	46th					19.00	76.48	4.51
1881	47th					14.35	77.78	7.87
1883	48th					9.80	72.11	18.08
1885	49th					8.83	70.64	20.53
1887	50th					6.33	66.06	27.60
1849	31st				10.98	87.57	0.58
1851	32nd				7.08	90.56	1.47
1853	33rd				4.39	88.60	6.43
1855	34th				4.46	86.31	8.63
1857	35th				2.26	86.44	11.02
1859	36th				1.15	80.80	17.48
1861	37th				1.59	79.62	18.79
1863	38th				0.35	72.63	27.02
1865	39th				0.33	68.75	30.92
1867	40th					55.65	44.35
1869	41st					42.63	57.37
1871	42nd					37.43	62.57
1819	16th			21.25	75.46	0.37
1821	17th			14.79	77.82	3.52
1823	18th			10.67	80.33	5.00
1825	19th			6.03	81.27	9.84
1827	20th			5.59	76.32	15.46
1829	21st			3.26	76.22	18.24
1831	22nd			2.33	69.44	25.91
1833	23rd			1.18	59.76	35.80
1835	24th			0.86	51.01	46.97
1837	25th			0.29	42.40	56.14
1839	26th				34.11	65.01
1841	27th				28.99	69.57
1843	28th				19.81	79.26
1845	29th				17.07	81.44
1847	30th				12.83	86.88
1795	4th	0.58	13.45	84.80	1.17
1797	5th		12.36	79.21	6.74
1799	6th		8.33	77.98	11.90
1801	7th		9.20	68.97	19.54
1803	8th		7.14	67.14	22.38
1805	9th		6.67	62.38	26.67
1807	10th		4.76	60.95	29.05
1809	11th		2.76	58.99	32.26
1811	12th		2.43	50.97	43.69
1813	13th		0.76	42.80	53.03
1815	14th		0.37	33.33	62.22
1817	15th			23.77	72.08
1789	1st	1.89	41.51	56.60
1791	2nd	0.85	31.62	67.52
1793	3rd	1.26	22.01	76.10

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