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Chief Standing Bear of the Ponca tribe was the central figure of an 1879 court case that established that Native Americans are "persons" under the law and are entitled to the same rights as anyone else in the nation.
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This statue of William King was given to the National Statuary Hall Collection by Maine in 1878. King served as the first governor of the state of Maine.
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This statue of Zebulon Vance was given to the National Statuary Hall Collection by North Carolina in 1916. Vance was a Confederate military officer in the American Civil War, governor of North Carolina and U.S. Senator.
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This statue of Samuel Jordan Kirkwood was given to the National Statuary Hall Collection by Iowa in 1913.
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This statue of Philip Kearny was given to the National Statuary Hall Collection by New Jersey in 1888.
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Martha Maria "Mattie" Hughes Cannon (1857-1932) was a physician, women's suffrage leader and orator, public health advocate, and the first woman elected to a state senate in the United States.
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This statue of Po'pay was given to the National Statuary Hall Collection by New Mexico in 2005.
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This statue of Richard Stockton was given to the National Statuary Hall Collection by New Jersey in 1888.
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This statue of Robert Fulton was given to the National Statuary Hall Collection by Pennsylvania in 1889. Fulton was an engineer and inventor best remembered for building America's first steamboat.
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This statue of Robert M. La Follette was given to the National Statuary Hall Collection by Wisconsin in 1929.
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This statue of Robert R. Livingston was given to the National Statuary Hall Collection by New York in 1875. Livingston was a lawyer, politician and diplomat.
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This statue of Roger Sherman was given to the National Statuary Hall Collection by Connecticut in 1872. Sherman was the only member of the Continental Congress who signed all four of the great state papers: the Association of 1774, the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation and
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This statue of Roger Williams was given to the National Statuary Hall Collection by Rhode Island in 1872.
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This statue of President Ronald Wilson Reagan was donated to the National Statuary Hall Collection by California in 2009.
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This statue of Sakakawea was given to the National Statuary Hall Collection by North Dakota in 2003. The eight-foot-high bronze statue depicts Sakakawea looking westward, with her infant son strapped on her back.
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This statue of Sam Houston was given to the National Statuary Hall Collection by Texas in 1905.
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Massachusetts gave this statue to the National Statuary Hall Collection in 1876. Sculptor Anne Whitney (1821-1915) was the second woman to complete a full-length statue for the Capitol and the first to have one included in the National Statuary Hall Collection.
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This statue of Patrick Anthony McCarran was given to the National Statuary Hall Collection by Nevada in 1960. He served in the U.S. Senate from 1932 until his death in 1954.
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This statue of John L. Swigert Jr. was given to the National Statuary Hall Collection by Colorado in 1997.
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This statue of John Winthrop was given to the National Statuary Hall Collection by Massachusetts in 1876.
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This statue of Jonathan Trumbull was given to the National Statuary Hall Collection by Connecticut in 1872.
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This statue of Joseph Ward was given to the National Statuary Hall Collection by South Dakota in 1963.
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This statue of Joseph Wheeler was given to the National Statuary Hall Collection by Alabama in 1925. Wheeler was a cavalry leader in the Civil War before serving in the House of Representatives.
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Nebraska gave this statue of Willa Cather to the National Statuary Hall Collection in 2023. Littleton Alston (1958- ) is the first African American sculptor to be represented in this collection.
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This statue of King Kamehameha I was given to the National Statuary Hall Collection by Hawaii in 1969. Under his rule, he unified all of the islands of Hawaii. The statue of King Kamehameha I is the heaviest in the collection.
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This statue of Lewis Cass was given to the National Statuary Hall Collection by Michigan in 1889. Cass served as governor of the Michigan territory, secretary of war, minister to France and was a member of the U.S. Senate.
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This statue of Lewis (Lew) Wallace was given to the National Statuary Hall Collection by Indiana in 1910. He is remembered for his political accomplishments and for being one of America's most noted authors.
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This statue of Marcus Whitman was given to the National Statuary Hall Collection by Washington in 1953. Whitman was born in 1802 and died in 1847; he is best remembered for his roles as a physician and missionary.
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This statue of Maria Sanford was given to the National Statuary Hall Collection by Minnesota in 1958.
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This statue of Mother Joseph was given to the National Statuary Hall Collection by Washington in 1980.