The Art Collection

The bronze doors of the House wing are comparable to those in the Senate. Each valve consists of three panels and a medallion depicting significant events in American history.

Site of one variety: Japanese flowering (Prunus serrulata).

This statue of Huey Pierce Long was given to the National Statuary Hall Collection by Louisiana in 1941. Long served as governor of Louisiana and as a member of the U.S. Senate.

Hugo Grotius (1583-1645) Dutch statesman. Advocate-General of Holland and Zeeland; author of On the Law of War and Peace, the first treatise on international law.

Text on the Plaque

U.S. Capitol Grounds
Memorial Tree

Pinus strobus
(White Pine)

Innocent III (1161-1216) Medieval pope. Student of canon and civil law, who, like Gregory IX, preserved the remnants of Roman law during the Dark Ages.

This statue of Jacob Collamer was given to the National Statuary Hall Collection by Vermont in 1881.

This statue of Jacques Marquette was given to the National Statuary Hall Collection by Wisconsin in 1896.

This statue of James Garfield was given to the National Statuary Hall Collection by Ohio in 1886. Garfield was the 20th President of the United States, serving from 1881 until he died from a gunshot wound 200 days later.

The Statue

The statue of James Madison in James Madison Memorial Hall of the

This statue of James Paul Clarke was given to the National Statuary Hall Collection by Arkansas in 1921.

This statue of James Shields was given to the National Statuary Hall Collection by Illinois in 1893. Shields is the only senator to have represented three states in the U.S. Senate (Illinois, Minnesota and Missouri).

This statue of James Zachariah George was given to the National Statuary Hall Collection by Mississippi in 1931.

This statue of Jason Lee was given to the National Statuary Hall Collection by Oregon in 1953.

Jean Baptiste Colbert (1619-1683) French finance minister and controller general under Louis XIV. Codified commercial, maritime, and colonial ordinances; reformed the French legal system.

This statue of Jeannette Rankin was given to the National Statuary Hall Collection by Montana in 1985. She was the first woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.

This statue of Jefferson Davis was given to the National Statuary Hall Collection by Mississippi in 1931. Davis served the nation in many positions before being appointed president of the Confederate States during the Civil War, including Secretary of War, a member of the U.S. House of Representatives and a member of the U.S. Senate.

This statue of John Burke was given to the National Statuary Hall Collection by North Dakota in 1963. Burke served as governor of North Dakota from 1907 to 1913 before becoming treasurer of the United States.

This statue of John Caldwell Calhoun was given to the National Statuary Hall Collection by South Carolina in 1910. Calhoun served as Vice President of the United States under Presidents John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson.

This statue of John E. Kenna was given to the National Statuary Hall Collection by West Virginia in 1901.