John Painter (Tennessee, September 20, 1888 - March 1, 2001) was posthumously recognized as the world's oldest man and oldest American veteran, as a result of the USA's SSA supercentenarian study. Painter was also the last surviving veteran of the First World War to be born in the 1880s. Only recently he was also proclaimed to have been the world's oldest man at the time. The June 1900 Census listed him as born in September 1888, … Wikipedia
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