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FOR OVER 150 YEARS, JOHNSTON & MURPHY has been making shoes for the presidents of the United States of America. With the election a day away, and all analysis of the election and the presidential candidates and their vice presidential candidates completely exhausted, how refreshing to learn something new about the office for which they fight.
The company was started in Newark, NJ, in 1850 by an immigrant shoemaker named William Dudley. He made shoes for President Milard Fillmore that same year and the company has been making shoes for the presidents since. History always seems to amaze me particularly when it becomes a tradition through modern times ... and regarding the shoes of the presidents! You can imagine my excitement at learning this fact.
ShoesofthePresidents.com includes a timeline of the past presidents and the shoe styles they preferred. It also includes little known facts like, President Abraham Lincoln had the largest feet of all the presidents since 1850 at a whopping size 14. Former President Bill Clinton came close with a size 13 shoe. A telling tidbit.
Pictured at the top is a last that William Dudley used to construct President Ulysses S. Grant's requested riding boots. A last is the wooden frame that is used to determine the shape and size of the shoe.
The lower shoe pictured is President Warren Harding's spats, my favorite of the presidents' pics next to Lincoln's shoe of choice. My least favored choice - former President Bill Clinton's. Correction: The blue suede shoes were a gift to former President Clinton by the company, a nod to his love of playing the saxophone and not his style of choice. Classic black cap toe lace-ups were designed by J&M for the former president.
You may vote for the style in which you would like to see Senator McCain or Senator Obama assume when either of them make it into The White House ... which we will know in a little more than 48 hours.
And it can't come soon enough. I'm sure the candidates are tired, and so are we.
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Vittorio
November 2, 2008