German-born political cartoonist Thomas Nast gave America some of its most enduring symbols: the Republican elephant, the Democratic donkey ... Nast drew thousands of cartoons during the second ...

In an 1874 cartoon published in Harper's Weekly ... Today, the donkey and the elephant remain enduring symbols of the Democratic and Republican parties, respectively. They are widely recognized ...

The Republican elephant made its lumbering debut in an unflattering cartoon on November 7th 1874, in “The Third-Term Panic”. In it, a donkey (“N.Y. Herald”, a democratic newspaper ...

I tend to go to those often as symbols because they’re easily ... least forgivable humor,” Danziger said. “And a good ...

The donkey’s association with the Democratic ... adopted the symbol. The Republican Party’s iconic elephant also owes its origins to Nast’s work. In his 1874 cartoon, “The Third-Term ...