“Remember fellows, any boy can become president—unless he’s got a mustache.”

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Evidently, "Dewey Defeats Truman" would have been true, if only Dewey had agreed to shave his awesome 'stache.

I never knew Dewey had displayed such badassity, but the article below gives me new-found respect for the man.   

http://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2016/01/26/running-for-president-takes-a-stiff-and-clean-shaven-upper-lip/chronicles/who-we-were/

In 1948, Emilie Spencer Deer, a solidly Republican woman from Ohio, announced to her family that she would vote for President Truman instead of the Republican candidate Thomas Dewey because she could not vote for a man with a mustache. She was neither foolish nor alone in her opinion. Educated and conscientious, she was, like other women of her day, simply reading the signs of what a good man looked like at the time. A clean-shaven man was team player, whereas a mustachioed one demonstrated a willful independence that was not worthy of her confidence.

Enjoyable article ;-)

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Last mustachioed (in office) President, William Taft









and the first, Rutherford Hayes (unless U. S. Grant's stubbly thang counts)  It was a good run while it lasted the only odd man out being William McKinley, and you know how that turned out for him.