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Clare Briggs
Clare Briggs is a famous cartoonist who lived from 1875 to 1930. Poems by Wilbur Nesbitt.
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so Briggs was on the side of midwest progressives during the Progressive Era. The cartoons when he moves to Westchester County New York, to the extent that they are political at all, read as more in line with the standard Republican thought of that era.
Eta – though of midwest progressive Republicans were still a substantial force in their party and in the country, at least until Fighting Bob in Wisconsin for instance passed away.Report