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Oct 31, 1879 New York City, New York, United States Died on 30 Dec 1944 (aged 65)
American editorial cartoonist
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About Nelson Harding
- Nelson Harding (October 31, 1879 – December 30, 1944) was an American editorial cartoonist for the Brooklyn Daily Eagle.
- He won the annual Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning in both 1927 and 1928, and as of 2018 was the only cartoonist so honored in consecutive years.
- The particular cartoon cited in 1928, "May His Shadow Never Grow Less", was a tribute drawn at the end of the 1927 calendar year to flier Charles Lindbergh.Harding was born in New York City.
- His work was often politically conservative by the standards of his day.
- He took a leading role in opposition to what some New Yorkers considered to be a threat from Bolshevism in the late 1910s, during the so-called First Red Scare.
- His cartoons portrayed political radicals as bomb-throwers and terrorists.
