In 1874, the New York Herald loudly opposed the possibility of Ulysses S. Grant running for a third presidential term and cried Caesarism.Nast, a life-long Republican who’d become frustrated ...

The elephant symbol for the Republican Party ... “father of the American cartoon,” used his artistic skills in Harper’s Weekly to showcase these symbols for each party in various cartoons.

Thomas Nast was the name of the cartoonist who popularised the elephant. In the tradition of great satircal cartoons of the late 19th and early 20th century, his intricate doodles attacked plenty ...

In the 1870s, political cartoonist Thomas Nast popularized the Democratic donkey in a series of popular cartoons. Nast depicted the donkey in several works, which started as his dislike for the ...

Not until the State campaign of 1874 got into action did the genuine elephant of the Republican Party blossom into existence. That was a memorable battle of ballots.

Soldiers used the term “seeing the elephant” as an expression meaning experiencing combat, and Nast later translated the animal into his political cartoons portraying the Republican party. In ...

On Nov. 7, 1874, the first cartoon depicting the elephant as the symbol of the Republican Party was printed in Harper's Weekly.

The donkey has long represented the Democratic Party, just as the elephant is known to represent Republicans. How exactly did this come to be? It turns out these animals have been patriotic since ...

The Republican Party has been known as the GOP since the late nineteenth century. Here’s everything to know about the GOP, the nickname for the Republican Party.

The Elephant (Republican Party) ... Nast continued to use the elephant as a symbol for the Republican Party in subsequent cartoons, and the association became widely accepted.

In March of 1877, after Republican Rutherford B. Hayes’ controversial victory, a Nast cartoon showed an injured elephant (“Republican Party”) kneeling at a tombstone labeled “Democratic ...

The donkey has long represented the Democratic Party, just as the elephant is known to represent Republicans. How exactly did this come to be? It turns out these animals have been patriotic since ...