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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 the 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 Centinel , 1812.
Author Elkanah Tisdale (1771-1835) (often falsely attributed to Gilbert Stuart) [1]
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    • 2007-01-10T04:08:50Z Chowbok 1764x1847 (718276 Bytes) {{Information |Description= {{en|Original cartoon of "The Gerry-Mander", from which [[w:Gerrymandering|gerrymandering]] get its name.}} |Source=Originally published in the Boston Gazette newspaper on March 26, 1812. |Date=1812 |Author=Elkanah Tisdale (1771-1835)

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