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A statue of singer-songwriter Johnny Cash is installed in the U.S. Capitol, in Washington, D.C., as part of the National Statuary Hall Collection. [1] The sculpture was gifted by the U.S state of Arkansas replacing the statue of James P. Clarke. [2]
Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Rosanne Cash, Tara Cash Schwoebel, and Kathy Cash-Tittle attending the unveiling of Johnny Cash’s statue at the U.S. Capitol, Washington, in September 2024.
The statue of Cash joins the Capitol on behalf of his home state Arkansas, which voted to replace its two existing statues in 2019, ones that have stood in the Capitol on behalf of the state for ...
The state's legislature in 2019 voted to replace Arkansas' two prior statues, which depicted little-known figures from the 18th and 19th centuries, with Bates and Cash. The two were approved after Arkansas lawmakers debated competing statue ideas ranging from Walmart founder Sam Walton to a Navy SEAL from the state who was killed in Afghanistan.
The two statues replace ones from Arkansas that had been at the Capitol for more than 100 years. The Legislature in 2019 voted to replace the two statues, which depicted little-known figures from the 18th and 19th centuries with Bates and Cash. Cash was born in Kingsland, a tiny town about 60 miles (100 kilometers) south of Little Rock.
Arkansas: Statue of Johnny Cash: Bronze: Kevin Kresse: 2024 Capitol Visitor Center [9] Statue of Daisy Bates: Bronze: Benjamin Victor: 2024 National Statuary Hall [10] California: Statue of Ronald Reagan: Bronze: Chas Fagan: 2009 Rotunda [11] Statue of Junípero Serra: Bronze: Ettore Cadorin: 1931 National Statuary Hall [12] Colorado: Statue of ...
The statue of Cash joins the Capitol on behalf of his home state Arkansas, which voted to replace its two existing statues in 2019, ones that have stood in the Capitol on behalf of the state for ...
The project was established by Mississippi County cotton planter and local politician William Reynolds Dyess (1894–1936), director of the Arkansas Emergency Relief Administration, who initially sought the establishment of a self-supporting agricultural community housing 800 families upon unused Mississippi Delta farmland. [6]