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American political cartoonist (1877–1970)
Norman Jennett
BornNorman Ethre Jennett
(1877-03-10)March 10, 1877
Grantham, North Carolina, U.S.
DiedJanuary 7, 1970(1970-01-07) (aged 92)
NationalityAmerican
OccupationPolitical cartoonist
SpouseHelen Mary MacGinness
Children2
Parent(s)Elijah Stanton Jennett
Clarissa King Jennett

Norman Ethre Jennett (March 10, 1877 – January 7, 1970) was a political cartoonist for newspapers in the United States. He produced cartoons critical of Fusion candidates, Populists, and Republicans. He was nicknamed "Sampson Huckleberry".

He was born in Grantham, North Carolina to Elijah Stanton and Clarissa King Jennett in Wayne County, North Carolina.

He made cartoons for the 1896 and 1898 elections.

He married Helen Mary MacGinness, who was born in Ireland and they were parents to Norman Ethre Jr. and Charlotte Clara Jennett.

He caricatured Republican representatives Charles Alston Cook and Virgil Lusk in the North Carolinian newspaper in Raleigh in 1897.

References

  1. Williams, Rachel Marie-Crane (2013). "The Cartoons of Norman Ethre Jennett & the North Carolina Election of 1898". Southern Cultures. 19 (2): 7–31. doi:10.1353/scu.2013.0014. JSTOR 26217424. S2CID 144309222.
  2. ^ Jones, H. G. Powell, William S. (ed.). Dictionary of North Carolina Biography. Vol. 3. University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 9781469629025 – via NCpedia.
  3. ^ "Norman Jennett · The North Carolina Election of 1898 · UNC Libraries". exhibits.lib.unc.edu.
  4. Williams, Rachel Marie-Crane (June 22, 2013). "A war in black and white: the Cartoons of Norman Ethre Jennett & the North Carolina Election of 1898". Southern Cultures. 19 (2): 7–32. doi:10.1353/scu.2013.0014. S2CID 144309222 – via go.gale.com.
  5. "Political Cartoons · The North Carolina Election of 1898 · UNC Libraries". exhibits.lib.unc.edu.
  6. Trelease, Allen W. (1980). "The Fusion Legislatures of 1895 and 1897: A Roll-Call Analysis of the North Carolina House of Representatives". The North Carolina Historical Review. 57 (3): 303. JSTOR 23535481.
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