His cartoons so popularized the teddy bear that children’s authors promoted it in their stories. The teddy bear’s fame prompted Berryman to create a calendar starring different teddy bear drawings for each of the twelve months of the year. Berryman also used the small bear to indicate emotions that he could not impute to the president. At other times, the teddy bear reflected a different side of newsworthy controversy.
The guides tracked down an old black bear that the dogs had worn down, and tied it to a willow tree for the President to shoot, but Roosevelt refused, calling it unsportsmanlike (although it was later put down due to its injuries anyway).īerryman's cartoon featuring the teddy bear first ran in the Washington Post on November 16, 1902. He continued to use the teddy bear to symbolize President Roosevelt both during and after his time in office. Sometimes the teddy bear was drawn as a side kick to Roosevelt, backing him up during contemporary challenges. Longino, Roosevelt was determined to nab a bear, but had failed to do so after three days of hunting. I n 1902, Berryman created the famous "teddy bear" in his cartoon (right) titled “Drawing the Line in Mississippi.” On a hunting trip with Mississippi Governor Andrew H. With a career spanning numerous presidential administrations, Berryman's cartoons commented on Washington politics, congressional issues, presidential elections, and both World Wars. He began work in the late nineteenth century with the Washington Post, and continued as a cartoonist for the Evening Star from 1907 through his death in 1949. In 1893, he married Kate Geddes Durfee and they later had three children, one of whom, James, followed in Berryman’s footsteps to become a Pulitzer-Prize winning political cartoonist. We recently added a great collection of Berryman's cartoons to our digital library, available here.īerryman was born in Clifton, Kentucky, to James and Sallie Berryman. While countless political cartoonists have depicted Theodore Roosevelt over the years, Clifford Kennedy Berryman (1869-1949) made the most impact on the public's memory of TR as creator of the iconic teddy bear cartoon that is forever linked with Roosevelt.
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