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Susannah Mushatt Jones

1899–2016

United States

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Susannah Mushatt Jones (July 6, 1899 – May 12, 2016) was an American supercentenarian who was, aged 116 years and 311 days, the world's oldest living person and the last living American verified to have been born in the 19th century.

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