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Nast's Political Parody:
Muckraking editorial cartoonist Thomas Nast's pointed caricatures helped push corrupt New York politician William "Boss" Tweed out of office in 1871. The pro-Republican Nast's cartoons helped President Abraham Lincoln's re-election in 1864, and Nast's friend, Ulysses S. Grant, attributed his election in 1868 in part to "the pencil of Nast." Nast popularized the donkey and the elephant as symbols for the Democratic and Republican parties. This 1879 Harper's Weekly cartoon was the first to show the two together. |