How tall was John Hancock?

John Hancock is commonly listed at 5 ft 11 in (180 cm).

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John Hancock’s 5 ft 11 in (180 cm) is a little above average for a US man: about 74 in 100 US men are shorter.

Where your height falls Everyone about 5 ft 11 in

John Hancock beside others

John Hancock is in the middle of the 108 politicians we have heights for: John Fetterman (6 ft 8 in) stands 9 in (23.2 cm) taller and Benito Juárez (4 ft 6 in) is 1 ft 5 in (43 cm) shorter.

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5 ft 11 in (180 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.

Photo: John Singleton Copley, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, cropped.

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John Hancock, 5 ft 11 in (180 cm), drawn to scale beside the average US man, 5 ft 9 in (175 cm), and the average US woman, 5 ft 3.5 in (161 cm)