The Living Room Candidate. If You Were President. William Henry Harrison: America's briefest President. 7 Hat Challenge: Master the Roles of the President. Election 2012. Interactive Exhibits. Running for Office - Cartoons of Clifford K. Berryman. Clifford K. Berryman: Political Cartoonist Extraordinaire In 1886 at the age of 17, Clifford K. Berryman moved from Kentucky to Washington, DC, to work at the U.S. Patent Office, where he used his self-taught talents to draw patent illustrations. He left the Patent Office in 1891 to become a cartoonist’s understudy for the Washington Post. Within five years, Berryman was chief cartoonist, a position he held until 1907 when he became the front-page cartoonist at the Washington Evening Star.
Berryman drew political cartoons for the Star until his death in 1949 at the age of 80. Washington political circles embraced Berryman’s cartooning. Berryman is most celebrated for his November 16, 1902, Washington Post cartoon, “Drawing the Line in Mississippi,” which portrayed an image of the teddy bear for the first time. English Lessons On American Presidents - U.S. Presidents. Presidents. Home - FDR: Day by Day. Election of 1800 in their own words.