When the GOP party starts using elephant as a mascot?

Question

When the GOP party starts using elephant as a mascot?

Answer 1

During the mid term elections way back in 1874, Democrats tried to scare voters into thinking President Grant would seek to run for an unprecedented third term. Thomas Nast, a cartoonist for Harper's Weekly, depicted a Democratic jackass trying to scare a Republican elephant - and both symbols stuck.

Answer 2

Political cartoonist Thomas Nast was the originator of the Republican Elephant and the Democratic Donkey symbols. The GOP Elephant first appeared in one of his cartoons in 1874.

Answer 3

Thomas Nast, in the late 1800's, drew political cartoons featuring a donkey symbolizing the Democrats and an elephant symbolizing the Republicans. They stuck.

Answer 4

Some political cartoonist named Nast in the early Civil War period, drew the Democrats as donkeys and Republicans as Elephants. They were very popular cartoons and slowly became the symbols of the two parties.

Answer 5

This symbol of the party was born in the imagination of cartoonist Thomas Nast and first appeared in Harper's Weekly on November 7, 1874.

Answer 6

They already do.





Odd how it fits.



Big, lumbering, slow...