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Washington circle statue swap feud and Mills Jackson statue
A Washington post piece details Colonel Sherrill’s duties in the capital and then traces the controversy over replacing Andrew Jackson’s equestrian statue in Lafayette Square with George Washington’s. It notes federal officials and state legislatures voicing opinions, Harding’s stance, and the artistic histories of Mills’s Jackson statue and the Washington piece.
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Clarence CO
Sherrill
Washington, D. C
Washington
Washington Circle
Pennsylvania Avenue
Twenty-second Street
George Washington
Brooklyn
United States
Andrew Jackson
Lafayette Square
White House
Jackson
Office of Public Buildings and Grounds
Senator Shields
Tennessee
Shields
Hermitage
Nashville
C. Heiskell
Board of Trustees
South Carolina
North
Old Hickory
Waxhaw
Union County
North Carolina
Waxhaw Creek
Lancaster County
Columbia Record
Republic
Harding
McKellar
Borglum
Sheridan
Clark Mills
New Orleans
Stephen A. Douglas
Ilinois
New York
Charleston
S. C
Lorado Taft
Carolina
John C. Calhoun
Calhoun
Mills
Commonwealth
John Preston
Columbia
Capitol
Richmond
Houdon
Greenough
General Washington
Cave Johnson
Jackson Monument Committee
Victor
Lanham
Freedom
Capitol Dome
Crawford
General Jackson
America