facial hair is evil, except on tom selleck...

Not since 1913, when the mustachioed, mutton-chopped William Howard Taft gave way to the clean-shaven Woodrow Wilson, have we had a president with facial hair. The last major-party candidate with a beard was Charles Evans Hughes, who was narrowly defeated by Wilson in 1916. The last major-party candidate with a mustache was Thomas E. Dewey, who lost to Harry S. Truman in another close race in 1948.