Cartoonist Thomas Nast popularized the use of the two animals, with his 1874 cartoon "Third Term Panic" depicting the GOP as an elephant. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.

Grant as a potential American dictator. In Nast’s donkey-in-lion’s-clothing cartoon, the elephant –representing the Republican vote– was running scared toward a pit of chaos and inflation.

The Republicans lost control of the House of Representatives that November, and Nast bemoaned the defeat in another cartoon. It showed an elephant caught in a trap set by a donkey, and the ...

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