Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers is deciding whether he should seek a third term in 2028. He's led the state with a steady, if ...

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 ...

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.

Nast picked on Republicans as well as Democrats. In his Nov. 7, 1874 cartoon labeled “Third Term Panic,” Nast commented on Republican Ulysses Grant’s consideration of a third term as president.

As mentioned in the above quote, while the first Thomas Nast Republican elephant cartoon appeared in the Harper’s Weekly issue dated November 7, 1874, that edition of the magazine appeared on the ...

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 ...

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

According to the Smithsonian Magazine, “It was a time when political cartoons… really had the power to change minds and sway undecided voters by distilling complex ideas into more compressible ...

This political cartoon by Thomas Nast, taken from a 1879 edition of Harper's Weekly, was an early use of the elephant and the donkey to sybolize the Republican and Democratic parties. | getarchive.net ...

The Republican Elephant. The story of the Republican elephant’s origin is also connected to Nast’s artistry. While the elephant had appeared in Civil War-era imagery as a symbol of bravery in combat, ...