An image of an elephant was featured as a Republican symbol in at least one political cartoon and a newspaper illustration during the Civil War (when “seeing the elephant” was an expression ...

Nast continued to use the elephant and the donkey in his cartoons, eventually having them represent the whole of his party and the opposition. In March of 1877, after Republican Rutherford B.

The donkey and elephant symbols play a significant role in U.S. elections and have represented the two major political parties since the 19th century. In recent times, these symbols continue to be ...

The elephant symbol for the Republican Party originated during the American ... who became known as the “father of the American cartoon,” used his artistic skills in Harper’s Weekly to ...

The Republican Party has used the GOP nickname since ... been earlier symbolic representations of Republicans as an elephant, this cartoon brought it to prominence. Subsequently, other artists ...

Nov. 7 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1805, the Lewis and Clark Expedition sighted the Pacific Ocean for the first time. They would arrive two weeks later. Scientists who later studied ...

Thomas Nast was the name of the cartoonist who popularised the elephant ... cartoons of the late 19th and early 20th century, his intricate doodles attacked plenty of aspects of American political ...

The Lawrence County Republican Party posted an image on Facebook of the familiar GOP elephant, but the white spaces between the cartoon elephant’s legs look like members of the KKK in hoods.

Trump spewed there should be no more aid to Ukraine so Johnson caught it all in his Dumbo elephant ears and equally ... That cold talk from the Republican Cult’s frontrunner for four felony ...

Political Pattie’s in Washington, D.C., removed the Republican elephant and Democratic donkey from its logo just after opening as critics bashed the new bar for showing the GOP mascot.

Origins: The elephant became associated with the Republican Party also thanks to Thomas Nast. In the same 1874 cartoon mentioned above, Nast depicted an elephant labeled "The Republican Vote ...