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To sweep the Augean Stable. For President, Andrew Jackson. For Vice-President, John C. Calhoun

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To sweep the Augean Stable. For President, Andrew Jackson. For Vice-President, John C. Calhoun

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Election ticket for Jackson delegates from various Ohio counties in the presidential contest of 1828, illustrated with an image of a straw broom. The broom, a traditional pictorial and literary symbol of reform, is linked here to one of the mythological labors of Hercules -- his cleansing of the Augean stables.
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Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1828-13.

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01/01/1828

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Location

Stow (Ohio), 41.15944, -81.44028

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