In recent years, some have proposed other animals to help illustrate or describe what they see in the current presidential ...

the Republican elephant, the Democratic donkey, and Uncle Sam. Publishing regularly in Harper's Weekly, the celebrated Nast drew thousands of cartoons during the second half of the nineteenth century.

As anyone with even a passing interest in US politics knows, the elephant represents the Republican Party and the donkey ... on Jackson's nickname is this cartoon from 1833, entitled "Let Every ...

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 ...