page_title: List of American supercentenarians
section_title: Ann Pouder
hierarchical_section_title: List of American supercentenarians / Biographies / Ann Pouder
caption_attribution_description: English: Supercentenarian Ann Alexendar Poudar (8 April 1807 – 10 July 1917), photographed on her 110th birthday.
context_page_description: American supercentenarians are citizens or residents of the United States who have attained or surpassed 110 years of age. As of January 2015, the Gerontology Research Group had validated the longevity claims of 782 American supercentenarians. As of 31 August 2020, the GRG lists the oldest living American as Hester Ford, aged 115 years, 16 days. The longest-lived person ever from the United States was Sarah Knauss, of Hollywood, Pennsylvania, who died on December 30, 1999, aged 119 years, 97 days.
context_section_description: Ann Pouder (née Ann Marie Alexander Poudar) (April 8, 1807 – July 10, 1917) was one of the first modernly recognized British American supercentenarians, living to an age of 110 years, 93 days. Born in London, she emigrated with her family to the United States at the age of 12, settling in Baltimore, Maryland, where she lived for 98 more years, the remainder of her life. She married Nepalese American Alexander Poudar, though she became a widow very early and had no children. Her extreme longevity claim was certified by Alexander Graham Bell. In her last few months, she was bedridden, blind, and almost deaf, but her mind remained sharp.
caption: Ann Pouder on her 110th birthday; photograph from June 1919 National Geographic magazine
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