Who is Uncle Sam in the U.S?

On this day in 1813, the United States gets its nickname, Uncle Sam. The name is linked to Samuel Wilson, a meat packer from Troy, New York, who supplied barrels of beef to the United States Army during the War of 1812.Wilson (1766-1854) stamped the barrels with “U.S. read more

This Day in History: 09/07/1813 - U.S. Nicknamed Uncle Sam. This This Day in History video discusses how the nickname Uncle Sam came about. It seems that Samuel Wilson sold staples like beef to the military and his name was on the crates. Soldiers started referring to it as gear from Uncle Sam. The date was 9/07/1813. read more

Probably the first U.S. political cartoonist to crystallize the figure of Uncle Sam was Thomas Nast, beginning in the early 1870s. By 1900, through the efforts of Nast, Joseph Keppler, and others, Uncle Sam was firmly entrenched as the symbol for the U.S. read more

Uncle Sam (initials U.S.) is a common national personification of the American government or the United States in general that, according to legend, came into use during the War of 1812 and was supposedly named for Samuel Wilson. read more