United States Senate Vice Presidential Bust Collection
The United States Senate Vice Presidential Bust Collection is a series of 44 busts in the United States Capitol, each one bearing the likenesses of a Vice President of the United States. Each sculpture, from John Adams to Dan Quayle, honors the role of the Vice President as both a member of the executive branch and as president of the Senate. The Joint Committee on the Library, acting under a resolution of May 13, 1886, was the first to commission busts of the vice presidents to occupy the niches in the new Senate Chamber. After the first 20 busts filled the niches surrounding the Chamber, later additions were placed throughout the Senate wing of the Capitol. The collection is incomplete; busts of former Vice Presidents Al Gore and Dick Cheney are in the process of being created, and current Vice President Joe Biden is expected to have a bust by the end of his term.[1][2]
List of busts and sculptors [edit]
- John Adams by Daniel Chester French
- Thomas Jefferson by Moses Jacob Ezekiel
- Aaron Burr by Jacques Jouvenal
- George Clinton by Vittorio A. Ciani
- Elbridge Gerry by Herbert Samuel Adams
- Daniel D. Tompkins by Charles Henry Niehaus
- John C. Calhoun by Theodore Augustus Mills
- Martin Van Buren by Ulric Stonewall Jackson Dunbar
- Richard M. Johnson by James Paxton Voorhees
- John Tyler by William C. McCauslen
- George M. Dallas by Henry Jackson Ellicott
- Millard Fillmore by Robert Cushing
- William R. King by William C. McCauslen
- John C. Breckinridge by James Paxton Voorhees
- Hannibal Hamlin by Franklin Bachelder Simmons
- Andrew Johnson by William C. McCauslen
- Schuyler Colfax by Frances Murphy Goodwin
- Henry Wilson by Daniel Chester French
- William A. Wheeler by Edward Clark Potter
- Chester A. Arthur by Augustus Saint-Gaudens
- Thomas A. Hendricks by Ulric Stonewall Jackson Dunbar
- Levi P. Morton by Frank Edwin Elwell
- Adlai E. Stevenson by Franklin Bachelder Simmons
- Garret A. Hobart by Frank Edwin Elwell
- Theodore Roosevelt by James Earle Fraser
- Charles W. Fairbanks by Franklin Bachelder Simmons
- James S. Sherman by Bessie Onahotema Potter Vonnoh
- Thomas R. Marshall by Moses A. Wainer Dykaar
- Calvin Coolidge by Moses A. Wainer Dykaar
- Charles G. Dawes by Jo Davidson
- Charles Curtis by Moses A. Wainer Dykaar
- John N. Garner by James Earle Fraser
- Henry A. Wallace by Jo Davidson
- Harry S. Truman by Charles Keck
- Alben W. Barkley by Kalervo Kallio
- Richard M. Nixon by Gualberto Rocchi
- Lyndon B. Johnson by Jimilu Mason
- Hubert H. Humphrey by Walker Kirtland Hancock
- Spiro T. Agnew by William Frederick Behrends
- Gerald R. Ford by Walker Kirtland Hancock
- Nelson A. Rockefeller by John Calabró
- Walter F. Mondale by Judson R. Nelson
- George H. W. Bush by Walker Kirtland Hancock
- J. Danforth Quayle by Frederick E. Hart
References [edit]
- ^ Senate Vice Presidential Bust Collection, United States Senate.
- ^ The Vice Presidential Bust Collection, United States Senate.
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External links [edit]
- Senate Vice Presidential Bust Collection - Profile and slideshow of the Bust Collection
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