Elkanah Tisdale

Elkanah Tisdale

1768 1835

American artist (1768-1835)

Elkanah Tisdale was an American engraver, miniature painter and cartoonist. He was known for the famous cartoon "The Gerry-Mander", published in the Boston Gazette on March 26, 1812, which led to the coining of the term gerrymandering.

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