The modern Democratic Party was founded around 1828. It evolved from the Jeffersonian Republican or Democratic-Republican Party organized by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison in opposition to the Federalist party of Alexander Hamilton and John Adams.
The donkey came to represent the Democratic Party in 1828, when opponents of Andrew Jackson nicknamed him Andrew Jack-ass during the 1828 presidential campaign. Rather than reject this image, Jackson incorporated the donkey into his campaign posters.
On January 15, 1870 a cartoon by Thomas Nast, titled, A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion, appeared in Harper’s Weekly (see below). The cartoon used the donkey to symbolize the Democratic Party. The symbol gave everyone such a ‘kick’ that it has stuck to the Democrats to this day.
When Barack Obama, a Democrat, handed over the presidency to his fellow Democrat, Joe Biden, on January 20, 2021, it was the first time a living Democratic president transferred the presidency to another Democrat since Franklin Pierce passed the mantle to James Buchanan on March 4, 1857.
The donkey came to represent the Democratic Party in 1828, when opponents of Andrew Jackson nicknamed him Andrew Jack-ass during the 1828 presidential campaign. Rather than reject this image, Jackson incorporated the donkey into his campaign posters.
On January 15, 1870 a cartoon by Thomas Nast, titled, A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion, appeared in Harper’s Weekly (see below). The cartoon used the donkey to symbolize the Democratic Party. The symbol gave everyone such a ‘kick’ that it has stuck to the Democrats to this day.
When Barack Obama, a Democrat, handed over the presidency to his fellow Democrat, Joe Biden, on January 20, 2021, it was the first time a living Democratic president transferred the presidency to another Democrat since Franklin Pierce passed the mantle to James Buchanan on March 4, 1857.
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