In the recently released series "John Adams", the actors playing all of the characters appear in public with those wigs - and what do you know, they are all non-parting. So it would appear that the founding of our nation was accomplished without all partisanship (pun intended) of all the right parts and left parts that dominate our current political landscape. The time was not without a huge amount of bitter fighting and polarization, but perhaps the dynamic was quite different back in that day, and led to the final compromises and decisions of the United States.
Wikipedia's article on fashion during the period has this to say about men's hair:
Wigs were worn for formal occasions, or the hair was worn long and powdered, brushed back from the forehead and clubbed (tied back at the nape of the neck) with a black ribbon.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1750-1795_in_fashion#Hairstyles_and_headgear_2Here are some portraits of a few of the more famous founders - and the others also appear to have similar non-parting looks?
George Washington
Ben Franklin
John Hancock
Alexander Hamliton
Thomas Jefferson
John Adams
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