All the King’s Men Timeline:

Time Referenced	Context in the Novel	Page and Line Number(s)
1939	The present time during which Jack writes the novel.	4.21–22, 76.2–4
1936, a Saturday in the Summer	The last time Jack visited Mason City, with Willie and Sadie and the photographers on the way to Pappy’s farm.	4.22, 7.17, 18.29
1936, Summer	At this point, Jack has been working for Willie for six years.	30.15
1936, Summer	Tom Stark is eighteen or nineteen years old.	6.15
1934	Willie’s second term as governor begins.
1934	Jack becomes more occupied with Willie’s personality.	23.18
1933	Dinner party Jack attends with his mother, the Young Executive (Theodore Murrell), Judge Irwin, the Pattons, and Miss Dumonde.	193.5–6
1933	Slade becomes wealthy after obtaining the first liquor license in his area after the repeal of Prohibition.	26.17–19
1925	Fire escape collapses at the school, propelling Willie into public favor.	92.1, 97.3
1922	Jack’s first time in Mason City, when he meets with Willie for the Chronicle piece about the school house and Willie’s reelection campaign for the position of Mason County Treasurer, which is unsuccessful.	76.6
1922, June or July	Jack’s first introduction to Willie at Slade’s place, which occurs two months before his first visit to Mason City (above).	18.29, 20.2
1921	Pappy’s dog Buck is born. ☺	39.24
1916	Lucy Stark begins teaching	88.19
1916	Jack spends time with Judge Irwin around this time.	57.27
1915	Jack is seventeen, Anne is thirteen, and he witnesses a moment that he’ll never forget on their picnic.
1906	Judge’s career in politics begins around this time.	70.4
1904	Ellis Burden leaves the landing, his wife, and his son.
1898	Jack is born.
1896	Ellis Burden meets Jack’s mother in Arkansas and brings her home with him to Burden’s Landing.	193.5–6

- four years between Anne’s age and Jack and Adam’s (60.6)