The oldest men in the U.S. "George Rene Francis' death

After the age of three, the oldest man in the U.S. has died in California at the age of 112 years.

As Sacramento Bee reported Monday (29/12), George Rene Francis, who registered as the oldest man in the United States by Gerontologi Research Group in Los Angeles, died because of heart failure, Saturday, at a place of care in Sacramento.

Bee reported, Francis is a black man born in New Orleans on 6 June 1896 and grow in the South. Francis told the newspaper that in one interview recently that he was proud to vote with Barack Obama on the U.S. election, 4 November; Obama will become president of the U.S. descendants of Africa when he was first appointed on January 20.

"I think he was great because he was black," said Francis to the Bee. "Because white people think the Negro will never be developed. I think is beautiful."

Francis, who left the school after the sixth level ever berkarier as a boxer. He moved to California in 1948 and get jobs as drivers, car mechanics, and the barber. His wife, Josephine, died in 1963, after 46 years of marriage.

Bee reported that Francis lived with four children, 19 grandchildren and more than 30 great-great-grandson. With the death of Francis, Montana resident named Walter Breuning men into the country with the oldest aged 112 years and 98 days. Meanwhile, the United States is the oldest woman Gertrude Baines from Los Angeles, aged 114 years.

The oldest person alive who is Maria de Jesus of Portugal, aged 115 years old, born on 10 September 1893, according to Gerontologi Research Group.

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Source: Ant