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Monday, January 1, 2001
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Democrat Donkey Republican Elephant Political Party Symbols
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See cover, and p. 96, of Self-Portrait: U.S.A., by David Duncan Douglas Oversize 329.0221 Dun
Democrat Donkey Republican Elephant Party Symbols
Thomas Nast (1840-1902), a German-born illustrator, cartoonist and painter who served as
an artist-correspondent for several magazines in the U.S. in the latter half of the 19th century,
created the elephant, the donkey and the tiger as political symbols of, respectively, the
Republican Party, the Democratic Party, and New York's Tammany Hall.
Source: clipping from Parade Magazine, 9/25/88
See also articles in World Book Encyclopedia under Democratic Party and
Republican Party.
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