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[AP Panther Fan]

Oldest man in the world is 113-year-old Puerto Rican

Canadian Press

January 24, 2005

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - The oldest man in the world is from Puerto Rico, the Guinness Book of World Records has reported.

Emiliano Mercado del Toro officially became the world's oldest living man on Monday, at the age of 113 years, 149 days. He was born Aug. 21, 1891, in Cabo Rojo, on the southwest tip of this U.S. Caribbean territory. Mercado now lives in Isabela on the island's northwest coast.

He is also the oldest living veteran, London-based Guinness said. He didn't see action because, called up in 1918, he was two months into U.S. Army training when World War I ended Nov. 11, 1918.

Mercado was born while Puerto Rico was still part of the Spanish empire and lived through the transition after U.S. troops seized the Caribbean island in 1898 following the Spanish-American War.

[Ranger Mom]

WOW!!

I don't feel quite so old today afterall!!