# Does anyone have a list of US Senators who wear toupess or appear to be wearing a hair piece? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 27, 2012, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-have-a-list-of-us-senators-who-wear-toupess-or-appear-to-be-wearing-a-hair-piece/616966 "2012-03-27T18:09:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Latasha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/53a042/32.png) [@Latasha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Latasha)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-have-a-list-of-us-senators-who-wear-toupess-or-appear-to-be-wearing-a-hair-piece/616966/1 "2012-03-27T18:09:00Z")
Many of the US Senators are over 60 years old (talking about the males oviously) how many of them wear toupess or have a hair system going on? does anyone know? ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-have-a-list-of-us-senators-who-wear-toupess-or-appear-to-be-wearing-a-hair-piece/616966/2 "2012-03-27T18:30:33Z")
Moving this post to MPSIMS. It was originally posted to a two-year-old debate about toupees. ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-have-a-list-of-us-senators-who-wear-toupess-or-appear-to-be-wearing-a-hair-piece/616966/3 "2012-03-27T21:04:02Z")
Sticking with the zombie theme, [here](http://www.salon.com/1999/11/22/toupees/) is an article from 1999 in which someone found a 10-22% rate of hairpieces in the Senate. Don’t know if anyone has replicated the study more recently. ---
**Author:** ![Bootis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e8c25b/32.png) [@Bootis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bootis)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2012, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-have-a-list-of-us-senators-who-wear-toupess-or-appear-to-be-wearing-a-hair-piece/616966/4 "2012-03-29T16:20:39Z")
It may be there used to be a publicly available archive in Washington D.C. detailing such matters, but was lost in the great fire. Presumably, much of the archive had been transferred to digital media before the blaze, and is still kept current by the government, but public access to this database has long been prohibited in accordance to some Act or another. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2012, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-have-a-list-of-us-senators-who-wear-toupess-or-appear-to-be-wearing-a-hair-piece/616966/5 "2012-03-30T17:32:40Z")
> [@Bootis](#): > > It may be there used to be a publicly available archive in Washington D.C. detailing such matters, but was lost in the great fire. Presumably, much of the archive had been transferred to digital media before the blaze, and is still kept current by the government, but public access to this database has long been prohibited in accordance to some Act or another. Yes, they are keeping it under their hats pretty well. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2012, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-have-a-list-of-us-senators-who-wear-toupess-or-appear-to-be-wearing-a-hair-piece/616966/6 "2012-03-31T02:11:57Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > Yes, they are keeping it under their hats pretty well. > > Regards, > Shodan Are you implying that they’re trying to sweep the secret under the rug? ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2012, 8:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-have-a-list-of-us-senators-who-wear-toupess-or-appear-to-be-wearing-a-hair-piece/616966/7 "2012-03-31T08:58:39Z")
Why just Senators? That way you miss out on [Jim “Chinstrap” Traficant.](http://toughsledding.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/jimtraficant.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sleeps_With_Butterflies)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2012, 9:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-have-a-list-of-us-senators-who-wear-toupess-or-appear-to-be-wearing-a-hair-piece/616966/8 "2012-03-31T09:23:30Z")
If someone had a list like this I’d have to wonder about them, truly. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2012, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-have-a-list-of-us-senators-who-wear-toupess-or-appear-to-be-wearing-a-hair-piece/616966/9 "2012-04-01T05:13:59Z")
I watch a lot of political tv, and the guest talking heads are a parade of bad wigs, comb-overs, hair plugs, comb-forwards and a huge gallery of regrettable hairstyles. It would be quicker to list the politicians who have decent hair. ---
**Author:** ![Kozmik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8dc957/32.png) [@Kozmik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kozmik)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2012, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-have-a-list-of-us-senators-who-wear-toupess-or-appear-to-be-wearing-a-hair-piece/616966/10 "2012-04-01T05:25:56Z")
> [@gaffa](#): > > I watch a lot of political tv, and the guest talking heads are a parade of bad wigs, comb-overs, hair plugs, comb-forwards and a huge gallery of regrettable hairstyles. It would be quicker to list the politicians who have decent hair. Jon Stewart or Jimmy Fallon or someone or another did a segment on how alot of Senators have bad hair. ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2012, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-have-a-list-of-us-senators-who-wear-toupess-or-appear-to-be-wearing-a-hair-piece/616966/11 "2012-04-02T12:18:08Z")
Not sure about toupees, but didn’t Joe Biden have a pretty botched-up hair transplant? Since then he looks better-must have gone to a guy who charged a bit more than $5.00/plug. BTW-does Donald Trump have real hair? He looks like he’s wearing a dead animal on his head.😃 ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2012, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-have-a-list-of-us-senators-who-wear-toupess-or-appear-to-be-wearing-a-hair-piece/616966/12 "2012-04-02T17:44:01Z")
If we stretched it out to local state legislatures, you can add [Indiana State Rep. Pat Bauer](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jmndR6rMLgw/TxcjBdy4AbI/AAAAAAAABfc/2WSqc12fOdw/s1600/thief.jpg) to the list. One of the local op-ed cartoonists always shows him with a [price](http://www.capitolandwashington.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Varvel.jpg) [tag](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_lHPPhOSC0bk/Si_RvzEupFI/AAAAAAAAEps/nxPwrtIbqGU/s400/varvel_spelling_bee.jpg) [hanging](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-rQOTvaQshmo/TWceVCZSxMI/AAAAAAAAGIM/s6SR4CXhuWs/s1600/varvel_democrats_at_work.jpg) [from](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_lHPPhOSC0bk/Rg3ZAr_xThI/AAAAAAAAATk/C6QrOcCGEak/s400/varvel_property_taxes.jpg) [it](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-4Ho9U6eJ9mE/TZPhPrcYdmI/AAAAAAAAGN8/A4DtIP-BQDI/s1600/varvel_back_home_again.jpg). (I’m a Democrat and like Bauer, but I can’t help but find that hilarious.)