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Congressional Pugilists

Congressional Pugilists
This cartoon satirizes the intense factional fighting in President John Adams’s administration (1797-1801). On the right, Roger Griswold, a Federalist, holds a cane, while his adversary, Matthew Lyon, a Jeffersonian, holds fire tongs.
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House of Representatives, United States; Congress of the United States; Political Parties in the United States; Adams, John (U.S. president)
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