The symbol of the donkey was further popularized by the famous political cartoonist Thomas Nast in the 1870s. Nast used the donkey in a series of cartoons to represent the Democratic Party.

The same 19th-century political cartoonist ... artistic skills in Harper’s Weekly to showcase these symbols for each party in various cartoons. After that, others followed his lead and continued ...

Have you ever wondered where America’s political ... 1870 cartoon, shown above — “A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion” — that popularized the symbol. The cartoon depicts Democratic ...

"The elephant was a wing of the party that was stodgy ... as other cartoons in magazines like Puck, soon copied the political picture. The Democratic symbol, is traced to an 1837 caricature ...

An 1874 political cartoon by Thomas Nast: Nast was an early popularizer of the elephant and the donkey as the symbols of the major parties. (Library of Congress) Americans complain frequently that ...

On the 100th anniversary of the last shooting of a wild grizzly in the state, you’ve got to wonder why the bears we exterminated were made the symbol of the state. My research shows that a ...

Symbols are allotted to political parties and contesting candidates as per the provisions of the Symbols Order by ECI. In the largest democracy where a sizeable population is still illiterate ...

It’s easy to recognize these political symbols ... Hayes’ controversial victory, a Nast cartoon showed an injured elephant (“Republican Party”) kneeling at a tombstone labeled ...