Skip to main content
Collections Menu
Image courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.
Image courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.
Frederick Little Packer
Image courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.
Image courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.

Frederick Little Packer

American illustrator and political cartoonist, 1886 - 1956
View Related Artifacts
Place of BirthLos Angeles, California
Place of DeathBrightwaters, New York
California native Frederick Packer studied at the Chicago Art Institute. He created political cartoons and illustrations for newspapers in Los Angeles and San Francisco before moving to New York to work as a commercial artist. During the 1930s Packer returned to newspaper cartooning. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning in 1952.