6 ft 6 in (198.1 cm)
A commonly listed height: it appears across many profiles, but none says when or how it was measured, so shoes and rounding may be part of the number.
Fred Thompson is commonly listed at 6 ft 6 in (198.1 cm).
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Fred Thompson’s 6 ft 6 in (198.1 cm) is very tall for a US man: more than 95 in 100 US men are shorter.
Fred Thompson is one of the taller politicians we have heights for: John Fetterman (6 ft 8 in) stands 2 in (5.1 cm) taller and Benito Juárez (4 ft 6 in) is 2 ft 0 in (61.1 cm) shorter.
Also listed at 6 ft 6 in: Friedrich Merz.
A commonly listed height: it appears across many profiles, but none says when or how it was measured, so shoes and rounding may be part of the number.
Photo: United States Senate, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, cropped.
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