![]() ![]() Poor James Garfield just couldn’t get a break. Do not piss off gypsies! He was the only non-bearded adult male in the 1870s! James Garfield The “Pepsi Challenge” of the day… Samuel Tilden was victim of a gypsy curse and was unable to grow a beard (or win a presidential election). The 1876 election was controversial in that Hayes (who became president #19) won the electoral votes – but not the popular vote. ![]() Unless you were one of the 264,292 voters whom, when presented with the Tilden/Hayes challenge at their local grocery stores, said they preferred Tilden over Hayes. voters wanted a bearded guy in the White House. presidents sporting beards, sideburns, or mutton chops in their presidential portraits.Ĭlearly, the 1870s was a time when U.S. Hayes was second in a series of four consecutive U.S. Without further ado, let’s get started with… The Bearded/Mutton Chopped Presidents Rutherford B. Or whatever other portrait suits the purposes of this blog about hairstyles! This list is based on presidents’ appearance in their official presidential portraits. president when I was in third grade, and it’s something I’ve never forgotten since then (it comes in handy during more trivia games than I can count). It got me thinking about presidents’ hair, facial hair, powdered wigs, etc. We were supposed to have named only one president, but named two instead. presidents in our trivia game last night, which we got right, but got wrong on a technicality. “Political leaders, especially presidents: We want to see their faces.We had a question about mustached U.S. ![]() “Actors, artists, scientists, professors, and the occasional business executive are fine if they have facial hair,” he said. Political analyst Jeff Greenfield once took a stab at explaining the no-facial-hair phenomenon. Perkins suggests modern-day politicians are advised to remove facial hair for fear of resembling radicals or hippies from the 1960s. In “One Thousand Beards: a Cultural History of Facial Hair,” author A.D. military banned beards, saying they interfered with the efficiency of gas masks. ![]() One popular notion is that advances in the safety razor made shaving easier. Forest Service by President Theodore Roosevelt, who also sported a mustache.Įxplanations vary for the clean-shaven phenomenon among politicians. The last Pennsylvania governor to have facial hair was Gifford Pinchot, who had a Mark Twain style mustache during his second term from 1931 to 1935.Īn environmentalist, Pinchot was named the first chief of the U.S. Since Taft, who sported a thick handle-bar mustache when he took office in 1909, no sitting president since has worn facial hair. Lincoln, the nation’s 16th president, was the first to have facial hair, except for Martin Van Buren’s mutton-chop sideburns.Īfter Lincoln, all presidents up to William Howard Taft, except for Andrew Johnson and William McKinley, had some type of facial hair. Lincoln made no promises, but a month later allowed his beard to grow.īy the time he left his Illinois home for his inauguration, Abraham Lincoln had the beard he wore as president during the nation’s darkest hour, the Civil War. In October 1860, Grace Bedell, an 11-year-old girl from Westfield, N.Y., wrote Lincoln a letter saying a beard would improve his chances of being elected. Indeed, perhaps the most famous bearded politician, Abraham Lincoln, was clean-shaven before being elected president in 1860. Yet, Wolf’s bearded, button-down collar image is well within the mainstream of aggressive young entrepreneurs like the late Steve Jobs, Apple co-founder, who often appeared unshaven.īeards have been in and out of political fashion over the years. Wolf’s neatly trimmed gray beard is certainly a departure from the clean-shaven look of Tom Corbett or the boyish face of Tom Ridge. “If you want to project an official image,” he said, “you can’t be too far out of the mainstream.” ![]()
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