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In what year did Abraham Lincoln take office as the first Republican president?

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1874

In what year did cartoonist Thomas Nast first use an elephant to represent the Republican Party?

Nast's Harper's Weekly cartoon 'The Third-Term Panic' introduced the elephant, which stuck as the party's lasting symbol.

Source: History.com (2025) history.com

by 1880

By what year had other political cartoonists widely picked up Nast's elephant to symbolize the Republican Party?

Nast used the elephant repeatedly through the 1870s, and rival cartoonists soon followed his lead.

Source: History.com (2025) history.com

experiencing combat ('seeing the elephant')

Before Nast's cartoon, Civil War-era U.S. soldiers already used an elephant phrase to mean what?

The phrase 'seeing the elephant' was slang for a soldier's first taste of battle, predating its political use.

Source: History.com (2025) history.com

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