#elbridge gerry

[tomorrowusa]

^^^ The godfather of gerrymandering would point his finger at Trump and say, "See, I told you so!"

Far right MAGA zombies like to refer to each other as "patriots". A better description would be "cult members".

[spiroagnewfan80]

divine destiny 21

Ike meet the VPs--Wait, that's totally not Ike. Ike would never be caught with the likes of Elbridge Gerry of "Gerrymandering."

I got very lazy with this one but to be fair, I don't know a single soul that cares very much for Mr. Gerrymandering.

[cempasuchilflordemuertos]

Smash or Pass? (based off looks or vibe, not politics)

SI PAPI

OKIE

Maybe like once

Only if I’m not s0ber

With ulterior motives

Ha... No

EWWWW GET AWAY

Voting ended onOct 28, 2025

Smash or Pass: Vice presidents (Part 5) Elbridge Gerry (Vice President to James Madison)

[oneofthosecrazycatladies]

Shoutout to Elbridge Gerry (pronounced like Gary, not Jerry by the way) for simultaneously being the most consequential and most forgettable political figure in American history

[theworstfoundingfathers]

Who is the worst founding father? Round 2: Henry Clay vs Elbridge Gerry

Who is worse?

Henry Clay

Elbridge Gerry

Voting ended onMar 2, 2023

Henry Clay Sr. (April 12, 1777 – June 29, 1852) was an American attorney and statesman who represented Kentucky in both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. He was the seventh House speaker as well as the ninth secretary of state. He unsuccessfully ran for president in the 1824, 1832, and 1844 elections. He helped found both the National Republican Party and the Whig Party. For his role in defusing sectional crises, he earned the appellation of the "Great Compromiser" and was part of the "Great Triumvirate" of Congressmen, alongside fellow Whig Daniel Webster and John C. Calhoun.

[Clay and his family] initially lived in Lexington, but in 1804 they began building a plantation outside of Lexington known as Ashland. The Ashland estate eventually encompassed over 500 acres (200 ha), with numerous outbuildings such as a smokehouse, a greenhouse, and several barns. Enslaved there were 122 during Clay’s lifetime with about 50 needed for farming and the household. 

In early 1819, a dispute erupted over the proposed statehood of Missouri after New York Congressman James Tallmadge introduced a legislative amendment that would provide for the gradual emancipation of Missouri's slaves. Though Clay had previously called for gradual emancipation in Kentucky, he sided with the Southerners in voting down Tallmadge's amendment. Clay instead supported Senator Jesse B. Thomas's compromise proposal in which Missouri would be admitted as a slave state, Maine would be admitted as a free state, and slavery would be forbidden in the territories north of 36° 30' parallel. Clay helped assemble a coalition that passed the Missouri Compromise, as Thomas's proposal became known. Further controversy ensued when Missouri's constitution banned free blacks from entering the state, but Clay was able to engineer another compromise that allowed Missouri to join as a state in August 1821.

Elbridge Gerry (July 17, 1744 – November 23, 1814) was an American Founding Father, merchant, politician, and diplomat who served as the fifth vice president of the United States under President James Madison from 1813 until his death in 1814. The political practice of gerrymandering is named after him.

He was a member of a diplomatic delegation to France that was treated poorly in the XYZ Affair, in which Federalists held him responsible for a breakdown in negotiations. Gerry thereafter became a Democratic-Republican, running unsuccessfully for Governor of Massachusetts several times before winning the office in 1810. During his second term, the legislature approved new state senate districts that led to the coining of the word "gerrymander"; he lost the next election, although the state senate remained Democratic-Republican. Gerry was nominated by the Democratic-Republican party and elected as vice president in the 1812 election. Advanced in age and in poor health, Gerry served 21 months of his term before dying in office.

[marat]

I’ve been meaning to make this cartoon for months now and i only just got around to it

[todd--chavez]

Love Stuart

[sonofhistory]

Mr. [Elbridge] Gerry is lately married to a Miss Thomson of this city, a polite and amiable woman about 22. years of age.

 From James Monroe to Thomas Jefferson, January 19th 1786

The best thing about this letter is that Monroe was best man at Gerry’s wedding and after Monroe got married, Gerry sent him a letter with a bunch of sex innuendos in it about his new wife who he got married to on February 16th, 1787. 

In a letter to William Short shortly after (haha) he wrote:

“P.S. I forgot to mention to Mr. Jefferson that while in the State I heard that his daughter Polly was in good health, that I have Martin attending on me, being inform’d by him he was at liberty to engage for himself” 

I am unsure who Martin is, but I am pretty sure Monroe was ill because of that time he walked to congress in a rainstorm and showed up soaking wet.