President-elect Rutherford B. Hayes, whose beard is substantially longer than that of his predecessor, succeeds Ulysses S. Grant in 1877. (Hayes's Democrat opponent in the disputed election, New York governor Samuel J. Tilden, sports little, if any, facial hair.

The beard of Republican James A. Garfield (whose tenure—March 4 to September 19, 1881—is the second shortest in presidential history), is as full as, if shorter than, that of Hayes.

The murdered Garfield's vice president and successor, Chester A. Arthur, is the first beardless U.S. president since James Buchanan, although his mustache and side-whiskers are impressively full.

Grover Cleveland, who succeeds Arthur in 1885, wears only a mustache, no sideburns.