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Thomas Nast: Political Cartoonist

(1840-1902)

Information on the life of Thomas Nast, famous political cartoonist. Please use the following links and sources to find good information.

Links

Thomas Nast Homepage- Homepage for the "Father of Political Cartooning.

Republican Civics: The Origin of the Republican Elephant.

The Thomas Nast Society- The Thomas Nast Society encourages research, the exchange of information and knowledge, preservation of the original and published works of Nast and relates his contribution to his time and his legacy.

Senate Art and Historical Collections: The Cartoons of Thomas Nast Thomas Nast and the U.S. Senate -A barbed wit and regular appearances in the popular 19th-century newspaper , Thomas Nast fathered the modern political cartoon.

Encyclopedia.com: Thomas Nast-- Encyclopedia article on Nast.

Ulysses S. Grant & Thomas Nast-- The friendship between Nast and Grant.

 

 

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Historical Significance: Thomas Nast was the first true political cartoonist. He developed the universally known symbols of America's two main political parties; the donkey for the Democrats, and the elephant for the Republicans. His rendition of Santa Claus as a red-suited, white-bearded, jolly old fat man is still the most popular image of Old Saint Nick.

 

Date of Birth: September 27, 1840

Date of Death: December 7, 1902

Born in: Landau, Germany

Died in: Guayaquil, Ecuador

Occupation: Newspaper cartoonist

 

Books by and about Thomas Nast

 

World Biography-More pages on contemporaries of Thomas Nast

Clara Barton-- The "Angel of the Battlefield" who brought nursing care to wounded soldiers during the Civil War and later founded the American Red Cross.

Mathew Brady-- The "Father of Photojournalism" whose photos of Civil War battlefields brought the horrors of war home to civilians on the homefront.

Dr. Benjamin Rush-- Signer of the Declaration of Independence, member of the Constitutional Convention, noted physician and ardent supporter for the abolition of slavery.

Thomas Nast-American political cartoonist.

General George Armstrong Custer-- Famous American Cavalry officer who died at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876.

General Robert E. Lee-- The commanding general for the South in the American Civil War.--New

Lorenzo de Zavala--First Vice-President of the Republic of Texas.

 

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