Biography:

Frederick Taylor Pusey was an attorney and a representative of Delaware County in the Pennsylvania State Legislature.  He was born in Philadelphia on June 3, 1872.  He was first elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1902.
 
During the 1902 campaign for governor of Pennsylvania, Charles Nelan of the North American drew a series of unflattering cartoons depicting candidate Samuel Pennypacker as a parrot of Matthew Quay.  Pennypacker won the election, and, a short time later on January 28, 1903, Pusey introduced an “anti-cartoon bill” to the State Legislature.  The bill would make it illegal for publishers to print cartoons depicting politicians as animals.  Violators of the law would be susceptible to a $1000 fine and a maximum of two years in jail.  Pusey’s bill never became law, but the Salus-Grady bill which imposed similar restrictions was signed into law on May 12, 1903.  Because of public outcry, the law was never enforced and was repealed in 1907.