
February 12, 1962 – The Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist – Jay N. (Ding) Darling dies, at age 85, and is buried in Sioux City, Iowa.
In 1919, Jay “Ding” Darling, The Des Moines Register political cartoonist, met an up-n-coming public servant named Herbert Hoover. Over the next forty-three years these two men became close friends despite all their many differences. One pursued politics while the other won two Pulitzer Prizes for his editorial work poking fun at politicians.
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