America’s Obsession With Presidential Hair

(via National Geographic) Americans have been interested in political hair ever since George Washington came on the scene in 1789. Recently, collectors paid $6,000 for a sample of Thomas Jefferson’s mane and $25,000 for a lock of Abraham Lincoln’s.  This July, the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University in Philadelphia will display hair from Washington, Jefferson, John Adams, John Quincy Adams, and Andrew Jackson just as politicians flood the city for the Democratic National Convention.  National Geographic has more on this once collector obsession.