{"id":1741,"date":"2022-09-07T07:54:09","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T12:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imustacheyoutoshave.com\/?p=1741"},"modified":"2022-09-07T07:54:16","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T12:54:16","slug":"who-was-the-last-us-president-to-have-a-mustache","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imustacheyoutoshave.com\/who-was-the-last-us-president-to-have-a-mustache\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Was the Last U.S. President To Have a Mustache?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Modern-day presidents steer away from facial hair of any kind. However, there was a time when whiskers reigned supreme in the White House.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

William Howard Taft was the last U.S. president to have a mustache while holding the office. He ended the thirty-year span when facial hair was a popular look in the Oval Office.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

To learn more about mustaches and the presidency, read on!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

William Howard Taft was the last U.S. President to have a mustache<\/h2>\n\n\n
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Sideburns, beards, and mustaches were once commonplace among our nation\u2019s politicians. Beginning with our sixth president, John Quincy Adams, facial hair became synonymous with strong leadership. To date, a total of twelve U.S. presidents have had facial hair while serving in the highest office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During his term from 1909 to 1913, William Howard Taft was the last U.S. president to have a mustache. Harry S Truman briefly grew a short mustache and goatee while on vacation in 1948 but shaved it off once he reported back to his duties at the White House.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

President Taft was a big man with big ideas. Historical records indicate he was six feet tall and weighed in at a stout 340 pounds. Taft even had a bathtub custom-made for his heft. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

His large frame could handle a large \u2018stache, and that\u2019s the look he preferred. He styled his bushy \u2018mo with signature curls at the ends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Modern-day presidents steer away from facial hair of any kind. However, there was a time when whiskers reigned supreme in the White House. William Howard Taft was the last U.S. president to have a mustache while holding the office. He ended the thirty-year span when facial hair was a popular look in the Oval Office….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1796,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":18,"label":"General Info"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/imustacheyoutoshave.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/who-was-the-last-us-president-to-have-a-mustache_featured-1024x683.png",1024,683,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"Joshua Bartlett","author_link":"https:\/\/imustacheyoutoshave.com\/author\/joshuaebartlett\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":18,"name":"General Info","slug":"general-info","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":18,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":80,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":18,"category_count":80,"category_description":"","cat_name":"General Info","category_nicename":"general-info","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imustacheyoutoshave.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imustacheyoutoshave.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imustacheyoutoshave.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imustacheyoutoshave.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imustacheyoutoshave.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imustacheyoutoshave.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imustacheyoutoshave.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imustacheyoutoshave.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imustacheyoutoshave.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imustacheyoutoshave.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}