Walter Breuning - World's Oldest Man

Walter Breuning held the title of the world's oldest man and was the second oldest person. He died on April 14, 2011at the age of 114 after being hospitalized for the last month. He had spent the last thirty years at a retirement home in Great Falls, Montana.

He spent 50 years as a clerk with the Great Northern Railway, first in Minnesota before he moved to Montana.

He signed up for the military during World War I, but was never called up for duty.

After he retired at the age of 67 in 1963, he became the secretary for the local chapter of the Shriners. He served in that post until he was 99.