Topic: The World's Oldest Person

The Oldest Person Alive Has Died, but the Oldest Now Is Still an American

AP

Besse Cooper of Monroe, Georgia — a woman old enough to have fought for women's suffrage and, indeed, the world's oldest person — died at the age of 116 Tuesday. Who's the oldest person now? One of us.

By Ray Gustini

Jul 19, 2011

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