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Fred Seibel
copyright Richmond Times Dispatch John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston, MA; National Archives Records Administration

Fred Seibel

Cartoonist for the Richmond Times Dispatch, American, 1886 - 1968
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Place of BirthDurhamville, New York, United States
Frederick Seibel began his career as a cartoonist in 1916 for the Knickerbocker Press in Albany, New York. Seibel moved to Virginia in 1926 to become an editorial cartoonist for the Richmond Times-Dispatch and worked there for over 30 years. Over the course of his career, he did several shows at Metropolitan Museum Of New York, Art Institute of Chicago and Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Fred Seibel died in 1968 after completing nearly 16,000 cartoons. His most famous cartoon was "Retreat from Moscow," (5 November 1936) depicting presidential candidate Alfred E. Smith as Napoleon after FDR's landslide victory in 1936.