Origins: The elephant became associated with the Republican Party also thanks to Thomas Nast. In the same 1874 cartoon ...

In 1874, the first cartoon depicting the elephant as the symbol of the Republican Party was printed in Harper's Weekly. In 1916, Democratic President Woodrow Wilson was re-elected and Republican ...

the Republican elephant, the Democratic donkey, and Uncle Sam. Publishing regularly in Harper's Weekly, the celebrated Nast drew thousands of cartoons during the second half of the nineteenth century.

As anyone with even a passing interest in US politics knows, the elephant represents the Republican Party and the donkey ... on Jackson's nickname is this cartoon from 1833, entitled "Let Every ...

or, "Why is that donkey dressed like Uncle Sam?" The donkey has long represented the Democratic Party, just as the elephant is known to represent Republicans. How exactly did this come to be?