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Uncle SamIntroductionThe 87th United States Congress adopted the following resolution on September 15, 1961: Resolved by the Senate and the House of Representatives that the Congress salutes Uncle Sam Wilson of Troy, New York, as the progenitor of Americas National symbol of Uncle Sam. Monuments mark his birthplace in Arlington, Massachusetts, and site of burial in Oakwood Cemetery, Troy, New York. Another sign marks The boyhood home of Sam outside his second home in Mason, NH. The first use of the term in literature is seen in an 1816 allegorical book, The Adventures of Uncle Sam in Search After His Lost Honor by Frederick Augustus Fidfaddy, Esq., also in reference to the aforementioned Samuel Wilson.Earlier representative figures of the United States included such beings as Brother Jonathan, used by Punch magazine. These were overtaken by Uncle Sam somewhere around the time of the Civil War. The female personification Columbia has seldom been seen since the 1920s. The well-known recruitment image of Uncle Sam was created by James Montgomery Flagg, an illustrator and portrait artist best known for commercial art. The image of Uncle Sam was shown publicly for the first time, according to some, in a picture by Flagg on the cover of the magazine Leslies Weekly, on July 6, 1916, with the caption What Are You Doing for Preparedness?[1][2] More than four million copies of this image were printed between 1917 and 1918. The image also was used extensively during World War II.OriginIn this political cartoon from 1860, an early rendering of Uncle Sam looks on approvingly as Stephen A. Douglas receives a spanking from Columbia.The American icon Uncle Sam was in fact based on a real man, albeit a beardless one.A businessman from Troy, New York, Samuel Wilson, provided the army with beef and pork in barrels during the War of 1812. The barrels were prominently labeled U.S. for the United States, but it was jokingly said that the letters stood for Uncle Sam. Soon, Uncle