Elmer Andrews Bushnell (July 30, 1872 - January 27, 1939) was an American cartoonist, known for his

political cartoon A political cartoon, a form of editorial cartoon, is a cartoon graphic with caricatures of public figures, expressing the artist's opinion. An artist who writes and draws such images is known as an editorial cartoonist. They typically combine ...

s. Historians Alan Marcus and Zane Miller have credited Bushnell with a part in the downfall of George B. Cox.

Biography

He was born on July 30, 1872 in

Bloomfield Township, Trumbull County, Ohio Bloomfield Township is one of the twenty-four townships of Trumbull County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 1,097 people in the township. Geography Located in the northwestern part of the county, it borders the following townships: * ...

to Wells Andrews Bushnell and Emma Jane Bliss. He married Alice Mead Wicks on April 26, 1899 in Cuyahoga County, Ohio. They then moved to

Cincinnati Cincinnati ( ) is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Hamilton County. Settled in 1788, the city is located at the northern side of the confluence of the Licking and Ohio rivers, the latter of which marks the state line wit ...

. He first worked for the ''

Cincinnati Post ''The Cincinnati Post'' was an afternoon daily newspaper published in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. In Northern Kentucky, it was bundled inside a local edition called ''The Kentucky Post''. The ''Post'' was a founding publication and onetime ...

'' for several years, before working for the ''

Cincinnati Times-Star ''The Cincinnati Times-Star'' was an afternoon daily newspaper in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, from 1880 to 1958. The Northern Kentucky edition was known as ''The Kentucky Times-Star'', and a Sunday edition was known as ''The Sunday Times-St ...

''. He then joined a

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. He also worked for the ''

New York Globe ''The New York Globe'', also called ''The New York Evening Globe'', was a daily New York City newspaper published from 1904 to 1923, when it was bought and merged into ''The New York Sun''. It is not related to a New York City-based Saturday fami ...

'' and the ''

New York Journal :''Includes coverage of New York Journal-American and its predecessors New York Journal, The Journal, New York American and New York Evening Journal'' The ''New York Journal-American'' was a daily newspaper published in New York City from 1937 t ...

''. He died on January 27, 1939 in Cincinnati.

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* Artists from Cincinnati 1875 births 1939 deaths Deaths from pneumonia in Ohio People from Trumbull County, Ohio American editorial cartoonists {{US-cartoonist-stub