Norman Ethre Jennett (March 10, 1877 – January 7, 1970) was a political cartoonist for newspapers in the United States. He produced cartoons critical of Fusion candidates, Populists, and Republicans. He was nicknamed "Sampson Huckleberry".[1]
He was born in Grantham, North Carolina to Elijah Stanton and Clarissa King Jennett[2] in Wayne County, North Carolina.[3][4]
He made cartoons for the 1896 and 1898 elections.[3][5]
He married Helen Mary MacGinness, who was born in Ireland and they were parents to Norman Ethre Jr. and Charlotte Clara Jennett.[2]
He caricatured Republican representatives Charles Alston Cook and Virgil Lusk in the North Carolinian newspaper in Raleigh in 1897.[6]