Opinion of your states' Statuary Hall Statues

[Oswald Acted Alone, You Kook]

In the Capitol buliding, there are statues of 2 people from every state. The list can be found here:

http://www.aoc.gov/cc/art/nsh/index.cfm

My state-Texas-picked Stephen F. Austin and Sam Houston. A perfect choice.

[Redalgo]

Montana's are Jeanette Rankin and Charles Russel. Both are iconic figures. The former was the first woman to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives and was a staunch advocate of both women's rights and pacifism. The latter was a brilliant artist whose works captured the very essence of the Old West.

I have some degree of fondness for Mike Mansfield - certain early labor leaders, the "copper kings" Marcus Daly, William Clark, and Fritz Heinze, and a handful of other notable persons probably had more profound, characterizing legacies in the history of Montana - but I am generally pleased with the selections that have been made. All of the statues are quite impressive. I have gone out of my way to look at them on a couple of occasions.

[Sewer]

Ronald Reagan and Junipero Serra.

Awful.

[The Mikado]

Worth noting that only about half of those statues are actually in Statuary Hall.  The rest are at various points throughout the Capitol.  King Kamehameha is above the CVC, right underneath a fountain, to honor Hawai'ian custom that none can be higher than him.  You can't walk over his head without jumping a fence and walking through a fountain.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Henry Mower Rice and Maria Sanford. Never heard of either, though I do like the two counties named after the former.

[Lief 🗽]

My state-Texas-picked Stephen F. Austin and Sam Houston. A perfect choice.

Well, Sam Houston is definitely a perfect choice. Austin is a little over-rated, but I guess he's not a bad choice either. I also strongly approve of Elisabet Ney, the sculptor.

Looking over the list of these statues, a lot of these guys are freedom fighters (or at least the sort of unoffensive, trivial historical characters that show up in textbooks despite not really being very important at all), though the inclusion of frauds like Brigham Young and traitorous scum like Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis is a bit unsettling.

[useful idiot]

Lee and Washington, not bad. Apparently Virginia also has Jefferson (the only state to have three), but it's not on the Wikipedia list.

The fact that Lincoln isn't in the Kentucky or Illinois part of the collection is strange to me.

[WillK]

I think its pathetic that the Florida picked EK Smith.

[tpfkaw]

John Winthrop and Samuel Adams.  I was terrified of some horrible Kennedy thing, so I suppose Freedom Picks (well, one anyway, but about as good as could possibly be expected from MA).

[Oswald Acted Alone, You Kook]

My state-Texas-picked Stephen F. Austin and Sam Houston. A perfect choice.

Well, Sam Houston is definitely a perfect choice. Austin is a little over-rated, but I guess he's not a bad choice either. I also strongly approve of Elisabet Ney, the sculptor.

Looking over the list of these statues, a lot of these guys are freedom fighters (or at least the sort of unoffensive, trivial historical characters that show up in textbooks despite not really being very important at all), though the inclusion of frauds like Brigham Young and traitorous scum like Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis is a bit unsettling.

When I went there, a tour guide told me that Bush Sr. might get placed there. I heavily disagree, what about you?

[Хahar 🤔]

Ronald Reagan and Junipero Serra.

Awful.

Indeed.

[TheDeadFlagBlues]

George Shoup and William Borah.

Good guys, I'd prefer Frank Church and William Borah but Shoup wasn't an awful guy.

[bgwah]

Both of WA's are missionaries. Bleh.

[Boris]

Frances E. Willard - Some temperance movement-related woman. Useless.

James Shields - Matt Garza or David Price would have been far more deserving of a statue, IMO.

[Kaine for Senate '18]

George Washington and Robert E. Lee.  Both excellent choices.

[Ban my account ffs!]

Maria L Sanford and Henry Mower Rice... Didn't know anything about either.  Maria L Sanford was a well loved professor at the University of Minnesota.  Henry Mower Rice was a famous fur trader that had a good reputation with the Indians and helped broker treaties with them later in his life.  He was also integral in establishing first the Minnesota territory and then getting Minnesota admitted to the union in 1858.  He was then elected senator and later served as governor.