Here's how each symbol came to be associated with the Democratic and Republican parties: Origins: The donkey first became associated with the Democratic Party during Andrew Jackson's presidential ...

The donkey was first associated with Democrat Andrew Jackson's 1828 presidential campaign ... helping to establish it as the symbol of the Democratic Party. And it was Nast who provided the ...

The same 19th-century political cartoonist, Thomas Nast, is credited with popularizing both symbols, though he didn’t create either. President Andrew Jackson, our nation’s seventh president ...

While his use of the symbol died down, the donkey would later become a symbol ... The 1828 election was seen as a rematch between John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson; the latter won, in part, because ...

The symbols used to represent the two parties ... While running to be the seventh president of the United States, Andrew Jackson was referred to as a “jackass” by his political enemies in ...

During Andrew Jackson’s 1828 presidential campaign ... By 1880, other cartoonists had picked up the symbols and spread them across the country. Over a century later, their continued use in ...