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 [...]

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