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Sights at the Capital: Study and Delight in Washington
Washington becomes a premier sightseer city with the Capitol, White House, Smithsonian and other buildings drawing visitors. The Senate, House and rotunda house statues of state greats, while discussions on Grant statues and the Capitol’s statuary hall reveal evolving honors for Jefferson, Lincoln and Baker. Senator Tillman’s shifting stance contrasts with a social blind chaplain who greets lawmakers weekly.
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Washington
Jefferson
Senate
House
Supreme Court
Capitol
Library
Smithsonian Institution
White House
House of Representatives
Hamilton
Lincoln
Baker
Oregon
Ball’s Bluff
Statuary Hall
Virginia
Grand Army of the Republic
General Grant
Congress
Grant
New Hampshire
John Stark
Daniel Webster
Vermont
Ethan Allen
Jacob Collamer
Massachusetts
John Winthrop
Samuel Adams
Rhode Island
Roger Williams
Nathanael Greene
Connecticut
John Trumbull
Roger Sherman
New York
George Clinton
Robert R. Livingston
New Jersey
Roger Stockton
Phil Kearny
Pennsylvania
Peter G. Muhlenburg
Robert Fulton
Ohio
James A. Garfield
William Allen
Missouri
Thomas Benton
Frank P. Blair
Maine
Samuel King
West Virginia
John Kenna
Wilavis
James Shields
Michigan
Lewis Cass
Wisconsin
Pete Marquette
Benjamin
Tillman
South Carolina
Union
Cleveland
Rudyard Kipling
Disko
W. H. Milburn
Milburn
Arthur W. Duo