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Naomi Whitehead

1910–

United States

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Naomi Washington Whitehead (née Washington; born September 26, 1910) is an American supercentenarian who has been the oldest living person in the United States, currently at the age of 116 years, 13 days, since the death of Elizabeth Francis on October 22, 2024, and the world's second oldest living person since the death of Marie-Rose Tessier on February 10, 2026.

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