Summer Schedule
This cartoon depicts Ohio Senator Robert A. Taft, son of former President William Howard Taft, examining an electoral map of the United States, planning his "summer schedule" with hopes of becoming the next President. Summer is a critical time for candidates to campaign across the nation in preparation for the primaries the following spring. Robert Taft had a poor showing in the Republican primaries, and at the Republican convention the next summer lost the nomination to New York Governor Thomas Dewey.
U.S. Senate. Office of Senate Curator. (? - )
Series: Berryman Political Cartoon Collection, compiled 1896 - 1949
Center for Legislative Archives (NWL), National Archives Building, Room 8E, 7th and Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC, 20408. PHONE: 202-357-5350; FAX: 202-357-5911; EMAIL: legislative.archives@nara.gov.
07/24/1947
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ARC Identifier 1693481
Untitled. [What's the Use of Going Through With This Election?]
This cartoon concerns the 1948 presidential election. President Harry S. Truman, the Democratic Presidential nominee in the election of 1948, was widely expected to lose by a large margin to Republican nominee Thomas E. Dewey. This cartoon, printed just days before the election, shows Dewey confidently looking over the shoulder of a frowning Truman as they read bulletins showing the prevailing public opinion at the time. Despite several polls predicting a landslide victory for Dewey, Truman won the election in one of the biggest and most well-known political upsets in U.S. history. Journalists at the Chicago Tribune were so convinced that Dewey would win that they prematurely printed the headline "Dewey Defeats Truman" on the front page.
U.S. Senate. Office of Senate Curator. (? - )
Series: Berryman Political Cartoon Collection, compiled 1896 - 1949
Center for Legislative Archives (NWL), National Archives Building, Room 8E, 7th and Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC, 20408. PHONE: 202-357-5350; FAX: 202-357-5911; EMAIL: legislative.archives@nara.gov.
10/19/1948
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ARC Identifier 306150
St. Valentine's Day
Woodrow Wilson
President Woodrow Wilson was officially re-elected when Congress met in joint session to count the electoral votes. The cartoon shows Wilson's Valentine's Day card that he received in the form of the official announcement of his re-election in 1917.
U.S. Senate. Office of Senate Curator. (? - )
ARC Identifier 6011195 / Local Identifier F-088
The National Archives
02/14/1917
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The Lady and the Tiger
This cartoon depicts the two big winners on Election Day, 1917, in New York. Voters adopted a woman suffrage amendment to the state constitution, a measure backed by Tammany Hall, New York City's Democratic political machine. On the same day, Democrat John F. Hylan defeated both the Republican Mayor of New York City, John Purroy Mitchel, and Socialist candidate Morris Hillquit. The victory was a major triumph for Tammany Hall, here represented by the proud Tammany Tiger. While some states allowed women to vote, no national law guaranteed women that right until the 19th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified in 1920.
U.S. Senate. Office of Senate Curator. (? - )
Series: Berryman Political Cartoon Collection, compiled 1896 - 1949
Center for Legislative Archives (NWL), National Archives Building, Room 8E, 7th and Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC, 20408. PHONE: 202-357-5350; FAX: 202-357-5911; EMAIL: legislative.archives@nara.gov.
11/07/1917
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ARC Identifier 1696624
The Stage of the Campaign When the Working Man Feels His Importance
This cartoon shows politicians, including New York gubernatorial candidate Theodore Roosevelt, cozying up to the "working man," as the 1898 congressional and state elections entered the final week. Berryman points out the attention lavished on the labor vote, a potentially powerful voting bloc in the era of industrialization.
U.S. Senate. Office of Senate Curator. (? - )
Series: Berryman Political Cartoon Collection, compiled 1896 - 1949
Center for Legislative Archives (NWL), National Archives Building, Room 8E, 7th and Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC, 20408. PHONE: 202-357-5350; FAX: 202-357-5911; EMAIL: legislative.archives@nara.gov.
11/02/1898
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ARC Identifier 1693536
The Nebraska Primary
This cartoon depicts a large pool of primary candidates early in the 1948 campaign before the field narrowed. Printed in the Washington Evening Star on the day of the critical Nebraska primary, it shows the Republican Party elephant as a watchful mother chastising her sons for their bitter infighting. She knows a divisive primary may hurt the prospects of the party's eventual nominee in the general election. The candidates included Michigan Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg, Ohio Senator Robert A. Taft, Governor Thomas E. Dewey, former Minnesota Governor Harold E. Stassen, General Douglas MacArthur, and California Governor Earl Warren. Dewey ultimately secured the nomination and Warren became his running mate. They narrowly lost the general election to Democratic candidates Harry S. Truman and Alben W. Barkley.
U.S. Senate. Office of Senate Curator. (? - )
Center for Legislative Archives (NWL), National Archives Building, Room 8E, 7th and Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC, 20408. PHONE: 202-357-5350; FAX: 202-357-5911; EMAIL: legislative.archives@nara.gov.
04/13/1948
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ARC Identifier 306123
Untitled
On June 27, 1932 the Democratic National Convention convened in Chicago, Illinois, but the battle for delegates had been raging all through the spring. While President Hoover was encouraging Americans not to hoard their savings, Jouett Shouse was asking the Democratic candidates not to hoard delegates. Shouse was the chairman of the Executive Committee, an ally of John Raskob, and a supporter of Al Smith. Al Smith was the conservative choice for nomination. Garner, Ritchie, and Murray were favorite sons from Texas, Maryland, and Oklahoma, respectively. Before the convention began, the prospective nominees tallied their claims on delegates. Franklin Roosevelt was the clear leader in delegates but did have two-thirds of the delegates required for nomination. Smith had tried to use the favorite sons to refuse Roosevelt the nomination but by the final ballot, all the favorite sons' delegates went to Roosevelt.
U.S. Senate. Office of Senate Curator. (? - )
Series: Berryman Political Cartoon Collection, compiled 1896 - 1949
Center for Legislative Archives (NWL), National Archives Building, Room 8E, 7th and Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC, 20408. PHONE: 202-357-5350; FAX: 202-357-5911; EMAIL: legislative.archives@nara.gov.
03/02/1932
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ARC Identifier 6012108
Catching the Speaker's Eye In The Future News Note: Colorado Suffragettes Are Planning a Campaign to Elect a Woman to Congress Next Year
This illustration entitled, "Catching the Speaker's Eye In The Future News Note: Colorado Suffragettes Are Planning a Campaign to Elect a Woman to Congress Next Year", by cartoonist Clifford Berryman, which appeared in the Washington Evening Star on July 21, 1909, depicts a man's view of what it would be like. Here, a woman sits in front wearing a giant hat which nobody can see around.
U.S. Senate. Office of Senate Curator. (? - )
Series: Berryman Political Cartoon Collection, compiled 1896 - 1949
Center for Legislative Archives (NWL), National Archives Building, Room 8E, 7th and Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC, 20408. PHONE: 202-357-5350; FAX: 202-357-5911; EMAIL: legislative.archives@nara.gov.
07/21/1909
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ARC Identifier 6010805
Untitled
Governor Al Smith of New York, Democratic Party candidate for President, ponders how to capture the Indian vote rather than have it go to the Republicans. Senator Charles Curtis of Kansas was the Republican Vice Presidential candidate. Tammany Hall, the Democratic Party's well organized "machine" in New York City and state, frequently used Indian costumes and motifs in its campaigning. Cartoonist Clifford Berryman shows Smith thinking along the same lines.
U.S. Senate. Office of Senate Curator. (? - )
Series: Berryman Political Cartoon Collection, compiled 1896 - 1949
Center for Legislative Archives (NWL), National Archives Building, Room 8E, 7th and Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC, 20408. PHONE: 202-357-5350; FAX: 202-357-5911; EMAIL: legislative.archives@nara.gov.
09/04/1928
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ARC Identifier 6011970