Centenarians celebrate Obama's win for the ages

ATLANTA (AP) - At age 106, Ann Nixon Cooper doesn't usually stay awake past midnight. But on Election Night she had special reason to do so: She was waiting for Barack Obama to mention her name.
Cooper, one of the oldest voters for the nation's first black president, had been tipped off by the Obama campaign that she would be mentioned in his acceptance speech. Toward the end, she got her moment.
"I was waiting for it," said Cooper. "I had heard that they would be calling my name at least."

Caption reads, "Ann Nicon Cooper, 106, was mentioned by name in Barack Obama's acceptance speech Tuesday night."

My thoughts are I wonder how soon the damn reporters started harassing this woman, smh.

SACRAMENTO (AP) - Even the nation's oldest living man is celebrating Barack Obama's extraordinary victory.
At 112, George Rene Francis of Sacramento has lived through 19 U.S. presidents and six decades of Jim Crow laws, when he and all black Americans were forced to endure racial segregation.
The New Orleans native has outlived all other men in the country, according to the Gerontology Research Group.

Caption reads: "Lelia LaRue, right, shows her 112-year-old father, George Francis, the front page of a newspaper Wednesday. Francis is the oldest living male in the U.S.