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Political Parties Thomas Nast built upon this legacy and used his extraordinary skill to amplify it. For a time, the rooster also served as the symbol of the Democratic Party, but gradually the donkey replaced it in popular usage after the 1880s. Nast first used the donkey as a symbol for the Democratic Party in A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion published January 15, 1870, in Harpers Weekly to comment on Northern Democrats (nicknamed Copperheads) dealings with Edwin M. Stanton, Lincolns Secretary of War The name was first publicly applied to this movement in a June 1854 editorial by New York