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Brother Jonathan

NOUN
Uncle Sam
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Brother Jonathan got caught in a windstorm and struck one of the rocks.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 26, 2025

National symbols aren’t something we can formally retire; they’re deep in the culture, and can only fade away, like Brother Jonathan or Columbia, as people’s values change.

From Slate • Jul. 4, 2022

But there was another figure resembling Uncle Sam called Brother Jonathan who emerged earlier.

From Salon • Dec. 11, 2021

He replaced Brother Jonathan, a New Englander, as an American icon in the early 19th century after an article circulated in the May 12, 1830, New York Gazette.

From New York Times • Jul. 3, 2015

Brother Jonathan announced that there would be foot-washing at another church in the Association on the fourth Sunday of the month and slowly, almost reluctantly, they went their way.

From Blue Ridge Country by Caldwell, Erskine




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