This Day in History:, United States
Nicknamed Uncle Sam.
September 7, 1813.
The nickname goes back
to the War of 1812.
It's linked to a
NY meatpacker named Samuel Wilson.
He supplied the U.S. Army with beef.
Wilson stamped his food barrels "U.S.,"
and soldiers began referring to his products as "Uncle Sam's.".
The name caught the attention of media
and stuck as a representation of the
federal government.
Political cartoonist Thomas Nash
was the first to draw Uncle Sam with
the stars and stripes suite and white beard.
The most famous image of Uncle Sam,
captioned, โI Want You For The U.S. Army,โ
was the work of artist James Montgomery Flagg.
Congress finally declared
Samuel Wilson as โthe progenitor
of Americaโs national symbol
of Uncle Samโ in 1961
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