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Position:Home>History> Why Abraham Lincoln the 16th President of the USA keep his beard?Question: Why Abraham Lincoln the 16th President of the USA keep his beard!? Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: An 11 year old girl wrote him a letter!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Abraham Lincoln had a deformed jaw, which is visible on his early photos!. also, at the age of 23, he suffered a whiplash injury from a branch in a forest that cut the angle of his jaw under his left ear!. For a time, he was unable to shave!. Two months later, he had a beard over just the lower jaw but not his top lip, which he could shave!. This is the style he kept for the rest of his life and it hid the deformity quite well, and the scar also!.Www@QuestionHome@Com The same reason I do!. I HATE SHAVING!!!, but then again looking the part is no problem either!. Abe was a consummate politician who kept with the times, fads and fashions!. In the 19th century, beards & a Moustache were seen as cool, nowadays anyone with a beard or tash is shunned!. It was a matter of preference and still is to this day!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Highly fashionable in his time , most older men wore them !. to be Masculine in them times was very important to them!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Hessa GWww@QuestionHome@Com He may have a lost a bet with Stonewall Jackson!.Www@QuestionHome@Com |