J.D. Vance fist President or VP to have a Beard since 1892

By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-17 16:59:50 | Updated at 2024-11-17 19:47:38 2 hours ago

J.D. Vance fist President or VP to have a Beard since 1892
None | Sunday, November 17, 2024 | Steven Scharf

Posted on 11/17/2024 8:55:30 AM PST by Steven Scharf

There have been very few Presidential or Vice Presidential candidates with beards or mustaches in the 20th and 21st centuries. It was very popular in the 1800s.

William Howard Taft (Republican) Lost 1912, Won 1908 Mustache

Charles Evans Hughes (Republican) Lost 1916 Mustache

Theodore Roosevelt (Progressive) Lost 1912, (Republican) Won 1904 Mustache

Grover Cleveland (Democrat) Won 1892, lost 1888, Won 1884 Mustache

Benjamin Harrison (Republican) Lost 1892, Won 1888 Beard

James G. Blaine (Republican) Lost 1884

All of the candidates in 1888 and 1884 had beards or mustaches

The following third party candidates more recently had beards or mustaches.

Howie Hawkins (Green) 2024 Beard Bob Barr (Libertarian) 2008 Mustache Andre Marrou (Libertarian) 1992 Beard Earl Browder (Communist) 1940 Mustache Roger W. Babson (Prohibition) 1940 Beard William Hope Harvey (Liberty) 1932 Mustache Herman P. Faris (Prohibition) 1924 Mustache

Neal Dow (Prohibition) was unusual in the late 1880s in that he had neither a beard, nor mustache. His home is around the corner from where I live and is open to the public for tours and info on the Prohibition movement. Portland Maine is far from being a dry town these days.

TOPICS: Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: beards; president; vicepresident

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Revised repost of a comment from July 2024.

Personally, I am not a fan of beards or mustaches but they have become more ubiquitous in recent times.

To: Steven Scharf

Moses and Jesus would like a word...

2 posted on 11/17/2024 8:59:13 AM PST by PghBaldy (12/14/12 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15/12 - 1030am - Obama team scouts photo-op locations.)

To: Steven Scharf

I was betting on a Dem “woman” to do it.

3 posted on 11/17/2024 8:59:14 AM PST by pas

To: Steven Scharf

4 posted on 11/17/2024 8:59:27 AM PST by TomServo

To: Steven Scharf

He’s not VP yet.

Trump may yet institute a no beards policy like the New York Yankees.

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