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Bust of President John F. Kennedy Boston, Massachusetts. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum. Felix de Weldon The John F. Kennedy Bust Washington, D.C. John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. 1971 Robert Berks: John F. Kennedy Statue New Ross, County Wexford, Ireland: 2008 Ann Meldon Hugh Statue of President John F. Kennedy
In 1933, Congress passed House Concurrent Resolution No. 47, which limited each state to only one statue in the Statuary Hall. Others would be distributed throughout the Capitol building. [1] In 2000, Congress amended a law to allow states to replace their statues. [2] 17 statues have since then been removed and replaced.
Alexander H. Stephens is a marble sculpture commemorating the American politician of the same name by Gutzon Borglum, [1] installed in the United States Capitol as part of the National Statuary Hall Collection. [2] The statue was gifted by the state of Georgia in 1927. [3]
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 7 March 2025. Mountain in South Dakota with sculptures of four U.S. presidents For the band, see Mount Rushmore (band). Mount Rushmore National Memorial Shrine of Democracy Tȟuŋkášila Šákpe Mount Rushmore features Gutzon Borglum's sculpted heads of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore ...
A special act Archived March 12, 2021, at the Wayback Machine of Congress, Pub. L. 109–116 (text), signed on December 1, 2005, directed the Joint Committee on the Library to obtain a statue of Rosa Parks and to place the statue in the United States Capitol in National Statuary Hall in a suitable permanent location.
The 170-ton statue is composed of 28 blocks of white Georgia marble [1] [vague] and rises 30 feet (9.1 m) from the floor, including the 19-foot (5.8 m) seated figure (with armchair and footrest) upon an 11-foot (3.4 m) high pedestal. The figure of Lincoln gazes directly ahead and slightly down with an expression of gravity and solemnity.
These heads of state are on a spring — and they’re just in time for Presidents Day. The entire set of 45 presidents — Grover Cleveland served two separate terms in the late 1800s — sells ...
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