Over the next few decades, as the country outgrew this rambunctious youngster, he was slowly edged out by the figure we now know as Uncle Sam, originally named after a meat magnate from New York ...

Those who are fans of the rapper’s political messaging — first made prominent in his 2014 To Pimp a Butterfly album— were also satisfied by the presence of “Uncle Sam,” played by Samuel L.

Uncle Sam has been busy ever since: consorting with Miss Liberty, exhorting young men to join the colors, lamenting the size of the national debt, even setting out in National Comics with a kid ...