How tall was Sam Houston?

Sam Houston is commonly listed at 6 ft 6 in (198 cm).

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Sam Houston’s 6 ft 6 in (198 cm) is very tall for a US man: more than 95 in 100 US men are shorter.

Where your height falls Everyone about 6 ft 6 in

Sam Houston beside others

Sam Houston is one of the taller politicians we have heights for: John Fetterman (6 ft 8 in) stands 2 in (5.2 cm) taller and Benito Juárez (4 ft 6 in) is 2 ft 0 in (61 cm) shorter.

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6 ft 6 in (198 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: National Portrait Gallery of Distinguished Americans, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, cropped.

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Sam Houston, 6 ft 6 in (198 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)