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Who create the Republican elephant?

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Anonymous

17y ago
Updated: 8/16/2019

The Republican elephant was created by cartoonist Thomas Nast and appeared in Harper's Weekly, Nov. 7, 1874. Before then, an 1860 issue of Railsplitter and an 1872 Harper's Weekly also had Cartoons connecting Republicans with elephants. In New York, also in 1874, there was an untrue story written as a hoax by the New York Herald saying that the animals of the Central Park Zoo had broken loose and were running wild in Central Park. The same Thomas Nast used the jackass in a cartoon using it to depict the Herald. This ultimately shifted to represent the Democratic party and the name changed to donkey.

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17y ago

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