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Norman Jennett
Born
Norman Ethre Jennett

(1877-03-10)March 10, 1877
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".[1]

He was born in Grantham, North Carolina to Elijah Stanton and Clarissa King Jennett[2] in Wayne County, North Carolina.[3][4]

He made cartoons for the 1896 and 1898 elections.[3][5]

He married Helen Mary MacGinness, who was born in Ireland and they were parents to Norman Ethre Jr. and Charlotte Clara Jennett.[2]

He caricatured Republican representatives Charles Alston Cook and Virgil Lusk in the North Carolinian newspaper in Raleigh in 1897.[6]

References

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  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 – via JSTOR.
  2. ^ a b Jones, H. G. Powell, William S. (ed.). Dictionary of North Carolina Biography. Vol. 3. University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 9781469629025 – via NCpedia.
  3. ^ a b "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 – via JSTOR.