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Bruce Shanks
copyright Buffalo Evening News John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston, MA; National Archives Records Administration

Bruce Shanks

Cartoonist for the Buffalo Evening News, American, 1908 - 1980
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Place of BirthBuffalo, New York, United States
Bruce McKinley Shanks was an American editorial cartoonist who worked for the Buffalo Evening News during the middle of the 20th century. There he won the annual Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning for "The Thinker" (August 10, 1957), which showed "the dilemma of union membership when confronted by corrupt leaders in some labor unions".