Why did our Presidents stop growing facial hair?

Facial hair is trashy

Dude looks like Father a-hole with that beard

Interesting bit of Presidential trivia - not counting sideburns (such as John Quincy Adams) - all Presidents were clean shaven until Lincoln - then all Presidents from Lincoln (1861) through Taft (through 1913) sported facial hair except Andrew Johnson and William McKinley.

That was also the worst run of luck for Presidents, with 3 shot to death and 1 impeached, although that was not directly related to the facial hair as McKinley was one of the "shot to death" and Johnson the "impeached" one.

Since Taft, not only have we had no Presidents with facial hair, there have only been 2 major party candidates to sport facial hair (both Republicans) bearded Charles Evan Hughes (lost to Woodrow Wilson in 1916) and mustachioed Thomas Dewey (lost to FDR in 1944 AND a close one to Harry S. in 1948).

The more you know...

Women go the right to vote

IDK why they ever stopped the powdered wig trend.

Gillette lobby influence.

I'm with her...


Maybe not...

I would actually like Trump a lot more if he looked like that

I never seen trump with facial hair so he's s bad example

Too much soy, the last seven presidents were more likely to lactate than grow facial hair.