Photo: Kamehameha Statue – U.S. Capitol
April 27th, 2010
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Kamehameha Statue – U.S. Capitol
Photo Credit: (smooshmasterflex) / CC BY-SA 2.0
“A third statue was commissioned when Hawai’i attained statehood and was unveiled in 1969. It stood in the United States Capitol alongside the Father Damien Statue and was the heaviest statue in Statuary Hall, weighing 15,000 pounds. In 2008, shortly after Hawaii-born Barack Obama was nominated as the Democratic Party’s candidate for the presidency, the statue was moved from a dark, back row of Statuary Hall to a prominent position in Emancipation Hall in the Capitol’s new visitor center.“
Source: Wikipedia
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