Physically, the new secretary cut an unimpressive figure. General John Pope thought Stanton “was in no sense an imposing person, either in looks or manner.” Relatively short, “stout and clumsy,” with “a broad, rather red face, well covered with a heavy black beard, which descended on his breast and was scarcely sprinkled with gray,” he “had a mass of long hair, pushed off toward the back of his head from a broad, massive brow and large, dark eyes, which looked even larger behind a pair of gold-rimmed spectacles, seemingly of unusual size.” With a “rather squat figure, surmounted by the leonine bust and head above it,” he seemed “shaggy” and “belligerent.”
Source: Abraham Lincoln ∶ A Life ▫𓂃
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