Portraits of Abraham Lincoln

The Beard
During the campaign, Lincoln famously received a letter from an eleven-year-old girl, Grace Bedell, who urged the candidate to grow some facial hair. "You would look a great deal better," she wrote, "for your face is so thin. All the ladies like whiskers and they would tease their husband's (sic) to vote for you and then you would be President."

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