Ben Butler,caricature,B Gillam,1882,Democratic Party

Title: [Ben Butler, full-length caricature, standing, facing right] / Gillam.
Creator(s): Gillam, Bernhard, 1856-1896, artist
Date Created/Published: [1882]
Summary: Editorial cartoon shows a fat man with receding curly hair and a stovepipe hat perched on the side of his head, striding down the street holding a portfolio labeled 'Ben's Bank Book' under one arm and a large check, dated Oct. 1882, written on the 'Mass. National Bank,' payable to 'The Democratic Party, $100,000' and signed 'Ben Butler.' A sign in the background reads 'Massachusett's Democracy -- Regular Nomiations [sic] for Governor Ben Butler and his Bar'l.' During his flamboyant career, Butler was a millowner, a general in the Union forces, a military governor of New Orleans, a Congressman, and finally in 1882, Governor of Massachusetts. He generated controversy and charges of corruption wherever he went, but also supported the rights of blacks, labor, and women. Bernard Gillam, who drew for the humor magazines Puck and Judge, was one of the most partisan cartoonists of his day.
Notes:
Title devised by Library staff.
Inscribed in pencil on verso: Cartoon of Ben Butler, Gov. of Massachusetts by Bernhard Gillam, 1882.
Forms part of: Art Wood Collection of Caricature and Cartoon (Library of Congress).
Unprocessed in WOOD/Gillam.299
inscription on verso source of title in inventory; LCNA says governor in 1883-84, so devised title/ww
Source: World encyclopedia of cartoons ljr
Subjects:
Butler, Benjamin F.--(Benjamin Franklin),--1818-1893.
Political elections--Massachusetts--1880-1890.
Ink drawings--American--1880-1890.
Political cartoons--American--1880-1890.
Bookmark /2004679136/
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