Early Presidents Made to Look Modern

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48. There's been some medical speculation that he had Marfan's syndrome, which runs in families...

Very tall, loose connective tissue at the joints, long, spatulate fingers, apparently heart murmurs can be involved. And rather distinctive facial features. Abe was said to have resembled his tall, rawboned, mother.

One of my grad school classmates answered that description, and in fact looked a lot like Lincoln.

As for Abraham Lincoln, his face is so familiar to me and associated with so much that is good and honorable, that I would only describe him as “homely,” and not “ugly,” as someone else did. I think his eyes, especially, look kind — and weary.