Boss Tweed Thomas Nast
Tweed was a walking caricature and that fired up the imagination of artist thomas nast a german immigrant who used squiggles and crosshatches to expose the soul of a swindler.
Boss tweed thomas nast. He was a critic of democratic representative boss tweed and the tammany hall democratic party political machine. Tweed became notorious as boss tweed in new york city. Thomas nast american cartoonist best known for his attack on the political machine of william m. Thomas nast was a german born american caricaturist and editorial cartoonist often considered to be the father of the american cartoon.
Nast cartoon that spanish authorities used to identify tweed. Tweed in new york city in the 1870s. While his helper william hunt was later released boss tweed was turned over to the american authorities and shipped back to new york. Thomas nast thomas nast is considered the father of modern political cartoons and his satirical drawings are often credited with bringing down boss tweed the notoriously corrupt leader of the new york city political machine in the 1870s.
He also popularized the democratic party s donkey. Nast was a german immigrant who came to the united states with his family when he was six years old. From nast s pen came the republican party s elephant tammany hall s tiger and one of the most popular images of santa claus. One of his most vocal critics was thomas nast who featured tweed and his cronies in many of his cartoons particularly in 1870 and 1871.
The public offices he held at times were always minor. The old new york. Thomas nast s campaign against boss tweed in the years following the civil war a former street brawler and lower east side political fixer named william m. Just like tweed school wasn t for him and he dropped out at an early age.
Cartoon of boss tweed by thomas nast boss tweed and the tweed ring depicted as a group of vultures by cartoonist thomas nast in harper s weekly september 23 1871. Contrary to popular belief nast did not create uncle sam columbia or the democratic donkey though. Tweed never served as mayor.