Editing Ding Darling

{{short description|American cartoonist}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2023}}
{{infobox person
| name               = Ding Darling
| birthname          = Jay Norwood Darling
| birth_date         = {{birth date|1876|10|21}}
| birth_place        = [[Norwood, Michigan]], U.S.
| death_date         = {{death_date_and_age|1962|02|12|1876|10|21}}
| death_place        = [[Des Moines, Iowa]], U.S.<ref name= died>"Pulitzer Prize Cartoonist, 'Ding' Darling Dies At 85". ''The Baltimore Sun''. February 13, 1962. p. 15.</ref>
| occupation         = [[Editorial cartoonist]] (1906 – 1949)<ref name="NYT1">{{cite news |title=Ding Darling, Cartoonist, Dies |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1962/02/13/archives/ding-darling-cartoonist-dies-winner-of-two-pulitzer-prizes-retired.html |access-date=April 13, 2023 |work=The New York Times |date=February 13, 1962}}</ref>
| known_for          = [[Organizational founder|Founder]] of [[National Wildlife Federation]]
| image              = J. N. Darling profile with pipe.jpg
| caption            = Jay N. Darling, {{circa|1918}}
| alt                = Photograph of Darling, circa 1918
| spouse             = {{marriage|Genevieve Pendleton|1906}}<ref name=died/>
| children           = 2<ref name=died/>
| awards             = [[Pulitzer Prize]] (1924, 1943)<ref name=died/>
}}

'''Jay Norwood Darling''' (October 21, 1876 – February 12, 1962), better known as '''Ding Darling''', was an American cartoonist who won two [[Pulitzer Prizes]]. He was an important figure in the 20th century conservation movement and founded the [[National Wildlife Federation]]. In addition, he was known to be close friends with [[Walt Disney]].

== Early life ==
[[File:Jay N. "Ding" Darling's parody of the popular cartoon character, the “Yellow Kid” published in the 1899 Codex yearbook of Beloit College.webp|left|thumb|Jay N. "Ding" Darling's parody of Richard F. Outcault's popular cartoon character the "[[The Yellow Kid|Yellow Kid]]", published in the 1899 Codex yearbook of Beloit College]]
Darling was born in [[Norwood, Michigan]], where his parents, Clara R. (Woolson) and Marcellus Warner Darling, had recently moved so that Marcellus could begin work as a minister.<ref name="Biographical">{{cite book |last1=Sterling |first1=Keir B. |last2=Harmond |first2=Richard P. |last3=Cevasco |first3=George A. |last4=Hammond |first4=Lorne F. |title=Biographical Dictionary of American and Canadian Naturalists and Environmentalists |date=1997 |publisher=[[Greenwood Publishing Group]] |location=[[Westport, Connecticut|Westport, Conn.]] |isbn=978-0-313-23047-9 |pages=191–192 |url=https://archive.org/details/biographicaldict0000unse_p7q0/page/192/mode/2up |access-date=April 13, 2023 |language=en}}</ref> In 1886, the family moved to [[Sioux City, Iowa]], where Darling developed an early appreciation for nature and wildlife during days spent wandering the prairie. He began to learn the importance of conservation as a youth after an uncle admonished him for shooting a wood duck during nesting season.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|date=2021|title=Ding Darling|url=https://www.iowapbs.org/iowapathways/mypath/ding-darling|url-status=live|website=Iowa Pathways|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201029230400/http://www.iowapbs.org/iowapathways/mypath/ding-darling |archive-date=2020-10-29 }}</ref>

Darling began college in 1894 at [[Yankton College]] in South Dakota and moved to [[Beloit College]] in Wisconsin the following year, where he began his studies in pre-medicine and became a member of [[Beta Theta Pi]].<ref name="Beta">{{cite book |editor1-last=Brown |editor1-first=James T. |title=Catalogue of Beta Theta Pi |date=1917 |publisher=James T. Brown |location=New York, New York |page=20 |edition=Ninth |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KGs4AAAAMAAJ&q=darling&pg=RA14-PP2 |access-date=April 13, 2023 |language=en}}</ref> While at Beloit he became art editor of the yearbook and began signing his work with a contraction of his last name, '''D'ing''', a nickname that stuck.<ref name=":0"/>

==Editorial cartoons==
In 1900, Ding became a reporter for the ''[[Sioux City Journal]]''. Following his marriage to Genevieve Pendleton in 1906, he began work with the ''[[Des Moines Register|Des Moines Register and Leader]]''. In 1911, he moved to New York and worked with the ''[[New York Globe]]'' but went back to Des Moines in 1913. Three years later, in 1916, he returned to New York and accepted a position with the ''[[New York Herald Tribune]]''. [[File:Ding Darling (self-portrait, 1919) (cropped).png|right|thumb|Self-portrait, 1919]]By 1919, Darling returned a final time to Des Moines where he continued his career as a cartoonist, winning the [[Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning]] in 1924 and again in 1943.<ref name="Pulitzer"/> His cartoons were published from 1917 to 1949 in the ''New York Herald Tribune''.<!--syndicated? special deal between past and current employers? two employers?-->

==Wildlife conservation==
[[File:1stDuckStamp.jpg|thumb|right|First duck stamp, designed by Darling]]
Darling penned some conservation cartoons, and he was an important figure in the [[conservation movement]]. President Franklin Roosevelt appointed him to a blue-ribbon Committee on Wildlife Restoration in 1934. FDR sought political balance by putting the Hoover Republican on the committee, knowing he was an articulate advocate for wildlife management.<ref name="Brinkley">{{cite book |last1=Brinkley |first1=Douglas |author1-link=Douglas Brinkley |title=Rightful Heritage: The Renewal of America |date=2016 |publisher=[[HarperCollins]] |location=New York |isbn=9780062089267 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BuD1CQAAQBAJ |access-date=April 13, 2023}}</ref>{{rp|268}}

Following the passage of the Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp Act in 1934, which required [[waterfowl]] hunters to purchase a [[Federal Duck Stamp]] before hunting, Darling designed the first Federal Duck Stamp that year and was appointed Director of the Bureau of Biological Survey, a forerunner of the [[United States Fish and Wildlife Service]].<ref name="duckstamp">{{cite web |title=The Federal Duck Stamp Story |url=https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fws.gov%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffiles%2Fdocuments%2FFW-1013-The-Duck-Stamp-Story.pdf |website=United States Fish and Wildlife Service |access-date=April 13, 2023 |page=3 }}</ref>{{r|"Brinkley"|p=280-285}}

[[File:NWRS Logo.png|thumb|right|The National Wildlife Refuge System logo, also designed by Darling]] The [[J. N. "Ding" Darling National Wildlife Refuge]] on [[Sanibel Island]] in southwest Florida is named after him, as is the [[Lake Darling State Park]] in [[Iowa]] that was dedicated on September 17, 1950.  Lake Darling, a 9,600-acre lake at the [[Upper Souris National Wildlife Refuge]] is also named in his honor.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fws.gov/refuge/upper_souris/about.html |title=USFWS About Upper Souris NWR  |access-date=2014-04-03 |publisher= [[U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service]]}}</ref> More recently a lodge at the [[National Park Service training centers|National Conservation Training Center]] near Shepherdstown, West Virginia was named in his honor.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://training.fws.gov/courses/catalog/nctc-catalog.pdf|title=National Conservation Training Center|website=U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service|access-date=February 15, 2017|archive-date=May 24, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210524193614/https://training.fws.gov/courses/catalog/nctc-catalog.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Darling was elected as a member of the [[Boone and Crockett Club]], a wildlife conservation organization, on December 13, 1934.<ref>{{cite web|title=Boone and Crockett Club Archives|url=http://cdm16013.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p16013coll13/id/179/rec/2}}</ref>

He was instrumental in founding the [[National Wildlife Federation]] in 1936, when President Franklin Roosevelt convened the first North American Wildlife Conference (now the North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference), administered by the American Wildlife Institute (now Wildlife Management Institute).<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.nwf.org/Who-We-Are/History-and-Heritage/Creation-of-NWF.aspx|title=Creation of National Wildlife Federation - National Wildlife Federation|access-date=2017-02-15}}</ref>

==Awards==
[[File:In Good Old U.S.A.jpg|thumb|"In Good Old U.S.A.", for which Darling received the [[1924 Pulitzer Prize]] for Editorial Cartooning]]
Darling twice received the [[Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning]] for his work with the ''Register & Tribune''. Darling was first awarded the prize in 1924 for his work "In the Good Old USA" and again in 1943 for "What a Place For a Waste Paper Salvage Campaign".<ref name="Pulitzer">{{cite web |title=Editorial Cartooning |url=https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-category/215 |website=The Pulitzer Prizes |publisher=[[Columbia University]] |access-date=April 13, 2023 |language=en}}</ref>

He was awarded the Audubon Medal in 1960 by [[National Audubon Society]] for "outstanding achievement in the field of conservation and environmental protection".<ref name="Audubon">{{cite web |title=Previous Audubon Medal Awardees |url=https://www.audubon.org/previous-audubon-medal-awardees |website=[[Audubon|National Audubon Society]] |access-date=April 13, 2023 |language=en}}</ref>

==See also==
{{Portal|Cartoon |Environment}}
*[[Jay Norwood and Genevieve Pendleton Darling House]]

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==References==
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==External links==
{{commons category|Jay Norwood Darling}}
*{{Internet Archive author|sname=Jay Norwood Darling}}
*[http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/spec-coll/msc/ToMsC200/MsC170/GroundWater.html "The Story of the Ground Water Table" by J, N, "Ding" Darling]
*[http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/spec-coll/MSC/ToMsc200/MsC170/MsC170_DarlingDing.html Biographical Information]
*[https://www.fws.gov/refuge/jn-ding-darling/visit-us/locations/jn-ding-darling-national-wildlife-refuge J.N. "Ding" Darling National Wildlife Refuge]
*[http://www.lib.drake.edu/heritage/ding-darling/index.html The Editorial Cartoons of J. N. "Ding" Darling, the Cowles Library Collection at Drake University]
* [https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/islandora/object/ui%3Ading Editorial Cartoons of J.N. "Ding" Darling]
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{{PulitzerPrize EditorialCartooning 1922–1950}}

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[[Category:1876 births]]
[[Category:1962 deaths]]
[[Category:American editorial cartoonists]]
[[Category:American conservationists]]
[[Category:American hunters]]
[[Category:Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning winners]]
[[Category:Beloit College alumni]]
[[Category:People from Charlevoix County, Michigan]]
[[Category:People from Sioux City, Iowa]]