Martin Van Buren defeats William Henry Harrison,…

Martin Van Buren defeats William Henry Harrison, and three other Whig candidates, in the United States presidential election of December 7, 1836.

The clean-shaven Andrew Jackson, elected U.S. president in 1828 over the incumbent John Quincy Adams, who balances his bald pate with trimmed side-whiskers along his jawline, had been reelected in 1832 over Henry Clay and the late William Wirt, devotees of long side-whiskers.

His protégé and successor Van Buren sports the full, bushy side-whiskers that have begun to fashionable in the 1830s.

The clean-shaven Harrison opts for the Romantic look, with his thinning hair brushed forward at the top and sides.