Who Was Alive

Were Samuel Finley Breese Morse and Abraham Lincoln alive at the same time?

Yes. Samuel Finley Breese Morse and Abraham Lincoln were alive at the same time for 56 years, from 1809 to 1865.

Samuel Finley Breese Morse was 17 when Abraham Lincoln was born.

Samuel Finley Breese Morse was 73 when Abraham Lincoln died, aged 56.

Samuel Finley Breese Morse

American inventor and painter

Born 27 April 1791 · died 2 April 1872, aged 80

Abraham Lincoln

President of the United States from 1861 to 1865

Born 12 February 1809 · died 15 April 1865, aged 56

  1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  2. Napoleon
  3. Samuel Finley Breese Morse
  4. Abraham Lincoln
  5. Charles Darwin
  6. Karl Marx
  7. Leo Tolstoy
  8. Mahatma Gandhi
  9. Vladimir Lenin
Samuel Finley Breese Morse and Abraham Lincoln in bold, with some of their best-known contemporaries. Drag across to see the age each reached in any year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.