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 ...

In 1874, the first cartoon depicting the elephant as the symbol of the Republican Party was printed in Harper's Weekly. In 1916, Democratic President Woodrow Wilson was re-elected and Republican ...

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 ...

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 ...

According to the Lawrence County Republican Party, the group accidentally used an altered image of a GOP elephant that was saved from Google. Jordan Liles Published Aug. 19, 2022 ...

The Republican elephant was first seen in an 1874 cartoon by satirist and conservative cartoonist Thomas Nast of Harper's Weekly. "The elephant was a wing of the party that was stodgy and immobile ...

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.

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 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.

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 ...