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Francis Attwood was born in Massachusetts in 1856. He studied at Harvard University but left in 1881 without graduating. After a spell at Boston Art Museum School he began having his work published in Cosmopolitan before becoming a staff cartoonist at Life Magazine. Over the next ten years Attwood commented on the world's leading politicians. Attwood, a political independent with broad humanitarian sympathies, died in 1900.