The Different (Physical) Sizes Of US Presidents
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Height: 6'0"
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Washington is described as a man with a “slender” build and “with pretty long arms and thighs.” He also had larger than average hands and, presumably, feet to match. William Sullivan described him as "over six feet in stature; of strong, bony, muscular frame, without fullness of covering, well-formed and straight. He was a man of most extraordinary strength.”
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Height: 5'6"
A notoriously sickly man, Adams was “stocky in his youth and portly in middle age. He had quick blue eyes and fine brown hair. [...] By the time he became president, his hands shook with palsy, and most of his teeth had fallen to pyorrhea. He refused to wear the ill-fitting dentures of the period and thus, from this time, talked with a lisp.”
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Height: 6'2"
Weight: 181 lbs
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Edmund Bacon, overseer at Monticello, wrote that Jefferson was "well proportioned, and straight as a gun barrel. He was like a fine horse - he had no surplus flesh. [...] His countenance was always mild and pleasant."
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Height: 5'4"
Weight: 100 lbs
Madison was known for having “brown hair, blue eyes, and a rather tawny complexion. His nose was scarred from once having been frostbitten. He wore a size 7.25 hat. Until his last years he always appeared young for his age.”
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Height: 6'0"
Weight: 189 lbs
Monroe was characterized as having “an imposing, muscular body." His eyes were a steely blue-gray and his brown hair shifted into a gentle grey as he aged.
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Height: 5'7"
Weight: 175 lbs
Quincy Adams had brown eyes and hair that thinned out as he entered old age.
