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Available Candidate political cartoon, 1848
A man with bushy eyebrows and sideburns, wearing a military uniform and a flamboyantly plumed helmet, sits atop a pyramid-shaped pile of skulls, holding a blood-tipped sword in his right hand. The caption reads "An Available Candidate: The One Qualification for a Whig President." Historian...
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| Collection: | Historical Society of Pennsylvania medium graphics collection (#V64) |
| Date: | 1848 |
| Alternate Date: | 1848 |
| Extent: | 1 loose sheet |
| Call Number: | Bb 612 Ac161 |
| Format: | Electronic |
| Language: | English |
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N. Currier (Firm)
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| Copyright: | Please contact Historical Society of Pennsylvania Rights and Reproductions (rnr@hsp.org) |
| Online Access: | https://digitallibrary.hsp.org/index.php/Detail/objects/12278 |
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A man with bushy eyebrows and sideburns, wearing a military uniform and a flamboyantly plumed helmet, sits atop a pyramid-shaped pile of skulls, holding a blood-tipped sword in his right hand. The caption reads "An Available Candidate: The One Qualification for a Whig President." Historians are unsure whether the central figure in this political cartoon, produced during the run-up to the US presidential election of 1848, is General Zachary Taylor or General Winfield Scott. Taylor was regarded favorably as a Mexican-American War hero and won the Whig presidential nomination (and, eventually, the presidency), but the hat and uniform are more often associated with representations of Scott, was also a popular general of the Mexican-American War and a rival for the Whig presidential nomination. Taylor was nominated at the party's convention in Philadelphia in June 1848. |
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