Uncle Sam
Nickname for the US government. It was coined during the War of 1812 by opponents of US policy. It was probably derived from the initials ‘US’ placed on government property.
| The earliest recorded use of the nickname was in the Troy Post 7 September 1913. The first use of the name in a book was in The Adventures of Uncle Sam 1816 by ‘Frederick Augustus Fidfaddy, Esq.’. Just before the Civil War the expression had found its way into dictionaries as the accepted sobriquet of the nation. |
Uncle Sam
| US meat packer; see Samuel Wilson. |
