Back in the 40’s my second grade teacher would rap my hand with a ruler for using the “wrong” hand, but I persisted, and it wasn’t till I was in college that I learned to write properly with the left hand.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jackson_and_Van_Buren,_1837.jpgNast did the common Uncle Sam as well, but the donkey goes back to Andrew Jackson, before Nast was born.
GROSS.