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.
Personally, I am not a fan of beards or mustaches but they have become more ubiquitous in recent times.
Moses and Jesus would like a word...
I was betting on a Dem “woman” to do it.
Fist?
He’s not VP yet.
Trump may yet institute a no beards policy like the New York Yankees.
As a bearded person I like this. Beards project masculinity, shaved faces don’t.
So they’re discounting Bronco, are they?
Means absolutely nothing, unless you consider American gents, who are growing up now with half the testosterone they had even back in 1980, as longing to be made fully male again.
Masculine faces don’t need beards.
The rest do.
[J.D. Vance fist President or VP to have a Beard since 1892]
What about Barack Obama and Mooch, isn’t that the same thi.....
Oh wait, I misunderstood. Never mind.
Fist and beard in one sentence can have unintended connotations.
Which administration was the last to see women walking around in Handmaid’s Tale outfits?
https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/jt0f43/joe_biden_with_a_beard_needs_to_be_a_thing/?rdt=54491
Joe Biden with a beard needs to be a thing
Kammy, I said, to have any chance of reaching rural voters you and Walz should both wear fake beards like the one below.
Kamala just laughed at me. But who’s laughing now?
Obama had a beard... still does.
Who cares?
He wears it well.
Nice try, no cigar.
So they’re not counting Obama’s beard?
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