I had a tour of Franklin Pierce's home in New Hampshire. It had a life size cardboard cutout of him. He was a good looking guy. I've read of other people saying the same thing. Warren Harding was another good looking guy. They both looked very presidential. Millard Fillmore - same thing. None of them are ranked very high by historians, though. Voters usually go the opposite way - They vote for people that look good. I don't know if this still holds, but there was a streak of recent presidential elections in which the taller candidate won.
So I did a little research on heights of presidential candidates. I looked at heights of those who won. Ignoring elections in which the candidates were tied, the past elections since 1900 - 22 times the taller candidate won and 7 times the shorter candidate won. Before that it wasn't quite like that. That makes some sense though as that was before the television age. In fact, I bet most people voting back then didn't even know what the candidate looked like.
I don't know if there was anything to this, but 22 to 9 is pretty striking.
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