What is National Statuary Hall Collection?
[[File:Flickr - USCapitol - Ronald Wilson Reagan Statue (cropped).jpg|thumb|right|200px|Here is an example. This picture shows California's statue of [[Ronald Reagan]]]] The '''National Statuary Hall Collection''' in the [[United States Capitol]] is a collection of statues donated by individual states to honor people very important in their history. Originally set up in the old Hall of the [[United States House of Representatives|House of Representatives]], renamed [[National Statuary Hall]], the expanding collection has since been spread throughout the Capitol. With the addition of [[New Mexico]]'s second statue in 2005, the collection is now complete with 100 statues by each 50 states. [[Alabama]], [[Arizona]], [[California]], [[Iowa]], [[Kansas]], [[Michigan]] and [[Ohio]] each replaced one of their first two statues a few years after Congress authorized replacements. The most recent state to replace a statue was Ohio, which replaced its statue of [[William Allen (governor)|William Allen]] with one of [[Thomas Edison]] in September 2016. ==Other websites== {{commonscat-inline}} *[http://www.aoc.gov/cc/art/nsh/index.cfm Official website of the National Statuary Hall Collection] *[http://www.aoc.gov/cc/art/nsh/nsh_coll_origin.cfm Official information on the origin of the National Statuary Hall Collection] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120915223306/http://www.aoc.gov/cc/art/nsh/nsh_coll_origin.cfm |date=2012-09-15 }} *[http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R41857.pdf Use of National Statuary Hall: Assignment and Historic Events] [[Congressional Research Service]] [[Category:Statues]] {{US-stub}}