Franklin Pierce was a handsome man, polished in manners, and it would be hard to find his equal for social popularity. It was said of Mr. Pierce that he had the finest pair of eyes known to all the long line of Presidents. His dress was always neat and plain.
James Buchanan was above the medium in height. His neckwear and clean-shaven face gave him much the appearance of a clergyman. His face was indicative of his Scotch-Irish parentage, being a bachelor, he could not in any sense be called a leader in society or a leafier in dress.
Lincoln's Careless.
Abraham Lincoln is best known to all the people by the sad-faced pictures found in almost every home. He was the tallest of the Presidents, being six feet four inches in height. He was not handsome, but there was that beauty in his face which artistically has been able to transfer in beautiful pictures. In his dress he was carelessly, even to slovenliness. He appeared in his inauguration attire in a black, Prince Albert.
Ulysses S. Grant laid aside the uniform of a general in the U. S. Army and rode to his inauguration in the plain clothes of an American citizen, which custom he continued until his death. 