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The caricature satirizes the bizarre shape of the district as a dragon-like monster, and Federalist newspaper editors and others at the time likened it to a salamander.
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English: Original cartoon of "The Gerry-Mander", this is the political cartoon that led to the coining of the term Gerrymander. The district depicted in the cartoon was created by Massachusetts legislature to favor the incumbent Democratic-Republican party candidates of Governor Elbridge Gerry over the Federalists in 1812.
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Source Originally published in the Boston Gazette, March 26, 1812.
Author Elkanah Tisdale (1771-1835) (often falsely attributed to Gilbert Stuart)[1]
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