Walker, William Henry, 1871-1938

President Roosevelt sits in every chair of the cabinet: “Agriculture,” “War,” “Executive,” “Navy,” “Treasury,” “Atty. Gen,” “Interior,” and “Commerce and Labor.”

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Comments and Context

Life magazine was reliably Democratic, but increasingly focused on social humor and society subjects since its founding in 1883 (the title was sold to Henry Luce in 1935, and it became a picture and news magazine). It did continue to published a complement of political cartoons, however, and during Theodore Roosevelt’s presidency the majority of those assignments fell to William Henry Walker.

President Roosevelt sits in a chair as three cowboys ride horses behind him, each one carrying a lasso with a different word. The first reads, “we want,” the second reads, “Teddy,” and the third reads, “another term.”

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Comments and Context

Life Magazine’s cover cartoon by William Henry Walker took its title from the recent best-seller by Jack London — the author’s most popular novel. Not a “nature faking” book as Roosevelt then criticized, it told the plausible story of Buck, a dog in the Yukon.

A group of bears huddle around a fire, looking into the woods, from which a number of pince-nez eyeglasses watch them.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905

President Roosevelt walks with a man of the Grand Army of the Republic as Roosevelt points his finger at Henry Clay Evans. Caption: The president: Get out, Evans. “But have I not been a faithful officer?” “Yes, none better. But my dear old G.A.R. friend here does not like you.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-05-01

Postcard featuring campfire scene of four bears with caption “and Teddy’s sure to get you if you don’t watch out.” Multiple sets of eyes lurk in the dark woods background. “I wonder if you are going to Uncle Percy’s to-day. Mamma.”

Collection

Fritz R. Gordner Collection

Creation Date

1906-12-19