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Lincoln Home Tour - Mirror
Up to 1860, Abraham Lincoln was clean shaven. In 1860, he received a letter from a young girl - Grace Bedell - in Westfield, New York, who told him that he would gain far more votes with a beard. He took her advice and became the first American president in office with a beard.
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