Abraham Lincoln was our tallest president. At 6-foot-4, he would stand out even today, and he certainly towered over the men and women of his era. The top hat he habitually wore in public made him ...

At 6’4” tall, President Abraham Lincoln towered over most of his contemporaries. He chose to stand out even more by wearing high top hats. He acquired this one from Washington hat maker J.Y. Davis.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Abraham Lincoln’s iconic stove pipe hat is missing from a sculpture along the waterfront in Louisville. Sculptor Ed Hamilton, who designed the work of Lincoln looking out over ...

A Waterfront Park sculpture of Abraham Lincoln is missing its iconic top hat. The bronze hat had been by Lincoln's side, resting on top of a rock, since 2009. Photos of the sculpture without the ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — With a last-minute sanding and a twist of the screws and bolts, a young Abraham Lincoln was reunited with his iconic top hat. All with famed sculptor Ed Hamilton watching ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Abraham Lincoln’s iconic stove pipe hat is missing from a sculpture along the waterfront in Louisville. Sculptor Ed Hamilton, who designed the work of Lincoln looking out over ...

For more than a decade, a large bronze top hat has rested next to a stately statue of Abraham Lincoln sitting on a rock in Louisville, Kentucky’s Waterfront Park and, until recently, the ...

Illinois’ state historian says he can’t confirm whether a stovepipe hat that was once the crown jewel of Springfield’s Abraham Lincoln presidential museum actually belonged to the nation’s ...

The foundation has never publicly acknowledged that the hat may not have been Abraham Lincoln’s. But a 2013 report by officials at the Chicago History Museum and Smithsonian, which was first ...

Or does the president define the hat? Stephen L. Carter Abraham Lincoln was our tallest president. At 6-foot-4, he would stand out even today, and he certainly towered over the men and women of ...