Did Abraham Lincoln have a beard when he was president?
Did Abraham Lincoln have a beard when he was president? After receiving a letter from an 11-year-old girl suggesting he lengthen his whiskers, Lincoln became the first president to have a full beard. The beard won public approval and may have helped keep Lincoln safe from an assassination plot in 1861. Who started beards? Wings forwards Ivan Boldirev and Danny Gare began the practice in Jan. 1985, trying to inspire the team to win four straight games. Defenseman Brad Park called it his "playoff beard" - thus coining the phrase. Why did Lincoln grow beard? A few weeks before he...