:Ralph O. Yardley

{{short description|American cartoonist}}

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| name = Ralph O. Yardley

| birth_date = 1878

| birth_place = Stockton, California, U.S.

| death_date = December 6, 1961

| death_place = Stockton, California, U.S.

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| occupation = Cartoonist

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| children = 2 daughters

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Ralph O. Yardley (1878 - December 6, 1961) was an American cartoonist who was described by The Honolulu Star-Bulletin as "one of America's widely-known cartoonists." Over the course of his 57-year career, his cartoons were published in The San Francisco Examiner,{{cite news |title=Ralph O. Yardley |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/270237413/?terms=%22Ralph%2BO.%2BYardley%22 |accessdate=December 21, 2019 |work=Honolulu Star-Bulletin |date=December 17, 1961|page=43|via=Newspapers.com}} the Pacific Commercial Advertiser, later known as The Honolulu Advertiser),{{cite book |last1=Chaplin |first1=George |title=Presstime in Paradise: The Life and Times of The Honolulu Advertiser, 1856-1995 |date=1998 |publisher=University of Hawaii Press |location=Honolulu |isbn=9780824820329 |oclc=806315274 |page=116 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aEZlsHy70hUC&q=Ralph+O.+Yardley&pg=PA116}} The New York Globe, and The Stockton Record.{{cite news |title=Ralph O. Yardley, Artist and Cartoonist of National Note, Returns to Stockton to Join Record Staff. Comes Back to City of Birth to Help Build Bigger Stockton |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/609932063/?terms=%22Ralph%2BO.%2BYardley%22 |accessdate=December 22, 2019 |work=Stockton Daily Evening Record |date=January 7, 1922|page=1|via=Newspapers.com}}