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 ...

Although Nast was partisan, Republicans did not get off scot-free. The Republican elephant made its lumbering debut in an unflattering cartoon on November 7th 1874, in “The Third-Term Panic”.

A donkey wearing a lion’s skin representing “Caesarism” frightens away an elephant labeled as the “Republican vote,” nearly falling into the trap of claims by Democratic-leaning Southern ...

Since 1860, those two parties have been the Democratic Party and the Republican Party. The Republican Party emerged in 1854 from the embers of the anti-slavery movement and the ashes of the Whigs.

Origins: The elephant became associated with the Republican Party also thanks to Thomas Nast. In the same 1874 cartoon mentioned above, Nast depicted an elephant labeled "The Republican Vote ...

Morey, of Rutland, held one that said, “We need to talk about the elephant in the womb,” with a drawing of the Republican elephant symbol inside a sketch of the female reproductive system.