13 Presidents Who Were Alarmingly Hot When They Were Young
*clutches pearls*
William Howard Taft
Hotness level: 🚨 out of 🚨🚨🚨
Here's a hottie who is seemingly overwhelmingly attractive in comparison to his older self. But look, there is a determined hotness in his face, the same kind of determinedness that would certainly lead one to wedge oneself into a bathtub that is FAR TOO SMALL for one's frame. But I'm talking in generalities here, of course.
Yale University / Via images.library.yale.edu
Calvin Coolidge
Hotness level: 🚨 out of 🚨🚨🚨
The hat, the cane, the gloves, and the overconfident pose here seem like too much, but for the notoriously reticent and idiosyncratic Coolidge, it's weirdly just right. In fact, the photo session here probably went something like this:
Photographer: Hey Cal, how 'bout a smile to brighten up that handsome mug?
Coolidge: No.
Photographer: OK, why don't you think about the perfect insult to eviscerate dining companions with?
Coolidge: *Fucking nails it.*
Ulysses S. Grant
Hotness level: 🚨 out of 🚨🚨🚨
Problematic fave*, sure, but let us not forget that this is a man whose real name was Hiram Ulysses Grant, but before he entered the army, he got rid of his first name because he didn't want his initials to be HUG.
I'd give him a hug. Just saying.
*Many of these are problematic, let's be real, so with that out of the way, can we just agree to appreciate their young, fresh faces before they got all literally and figuratively corrupt? K? K.
The Ulysses S. Grant Homepage
Woodrow Wilson
Hotness level: 🚨 out of 🚨🚨🚨
Ole Woody was hot, in a "guy you get stuck talking to at a frat party who won't shut up about his dad's foreign investments" kind of way. Or, you know, a "would unironically screen Birth of a Nation in the White House and wow you are so racist" kind of way.
Heritage Auctions / Via historical.ha.com