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unusual facts about Statuary Hall



Dennis Hollingsworth

In 2006, he authored a resolution to replace the statue of Thomas Starr King, a Unitarian minister who worked to keep California in the Union during the American Civil War, with one of Ronald Reagan in Statuary Hall.


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Ethel Felder Webster House

He also sculpted a statue of Senator W.H.H. Beadle of South Dakota, which was placed in Statuary Hall in the United States Capitol.

Kamehameha Statues

In 2008, shortly after Hawaii-born Barack Obama was nominated as the Democratic Party’s candidate for the presidency, the statue was moved from a dark, back row of Statuary Hall to a prominent position in Emancipation Hall in the Capitol's new visitor center.

Yankton, South Dakota

The Reverend Joseph Ward, born in Perry Center, N.Y., educator and founder of Yankton College; his statue is in Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol.