Cartoon, "The Third Term Panic", 1874
National Museum of American History

Cartoon, "The Third Term Panic", 1874

Republican National Party · 1874 11 07

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National Museum of American History
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National Museum of American History

Cartoonist Thomas Nast featured an elephant for the first time in 1874 to represent the Republican vote. He rendered the animal, unsure of its own weight, plodding through planks representing its own party platform.

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