The Donkey of Democracy antedates the Republican Elephant by more than four years. It was in the issue of Harper's Weekly for Jan. 15, 1870, that the long-eared animal dropped off the tip of Nast ...

German-born political cartoonist Thomas Nast gave America some of its most enduring symbols: the Republican elephant, the Democratic donkey, and Uncle Sam. Publishing regularly in Harper's Weekly ...

But it was Nast’s revival of the Democratic donkey in his Jan. 18, 1870 cartoon, shown above — “A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion” — that popularized the symbol.

Cartoonist Thomas Nast popularized the use of the two animals, with his 1874 cartoon "Third Term Panic" depicting the GOP as an elephant. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories .

In 1874, Nast drew the cartoon shown above with a donkey wearing a lion’s skin and scaring all the other animals in the forest. One of the animals was an elephant, and it was labeled “The ...

In 1870, Thomas Nast, the German-born political cartoonist who gave us the versions of Santa Claus and Uncle Sam we know today, drew a cartoon for Harper’s Weekly titled “A Live Jackass ...

The donkey and elephant first appeared in the mid-19th century, and were popularized by Thomas Nast, a cartoonist working for Harper’s Magazine from 1862-1886.

source: “the historic elephant and donkey: it was thomas nast, ‘father of the american cartoon,’ who brought them into politics,” the new york times, aug. 2, 1908 Filed Under: Republican ...

In an 1874 cartoon published in Harper's Weekly, Nast depicted a donkey (representing the Democratic press) in a lion's skin scaring away animals, including an elephant labeled "The Republican Vote." ...

German-born political cartoonist Thomas Nast gave America some of its most enduring symbols: the Republican elephant, the Democratic donkey, and Uncle Sam.

Thomas Nast, the German-born editorial cartoonist for Harper’s Weekly magazine, came up with both of them — he introduced the donkey first, on Jan. 19, 1870: 155 years ago Sunday.