Last week I had the pleasure of accompanying a Teaching American History group to Washington D.C. for a research trip to the Library of Congress and the National Archives. While in the Capital City we were treated to a tour of the Capitol building by a couple of Representative Ben Chandler's staff members. I was stuck by the number of statues honoring the great statesmen of the antebellum and Civil War eras. Just a few I was able to capture with photographs were:
John C. Calhoun of South Carolina
Chief Justice Roger B. Taney of Maryland
Abraham Lincoln of Illinois
Andrew Jackson of Tennessee
Daniel Webster of Massachusetts
Henry Clay of Kentucky
Thomas Hart Benton of Missouri
Jefferson Davis of Mississippi
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