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Just 24 statues from 100 in the National Statuary Hall Collection will be placed in the Capitol Visitor Center. The full collection -- two from each of the 50 states -- can be viewed at http:/
William Edgar Borah, senator from Idaho, prominent isolationist
James P. Clark, senator from Arkansas, supporter of Panama Canal construction
John M. Clayton, senator from Delaware and secretary of state, negotiated Clayton-Bulwer Treaty
Philo T. Farnsworth, Utah inventor and father of television
James Z. George, signer of Mississippi Secession Convention and Confederate colonel, U.S. senator
Ernest Gruening, editor and governor of Alaska
Wade Hampton III, Confederate cavalry commander, governor and senator from South Carolina
Mother Joseph, designed schools, hospitals and orphanages in Washington state and the Pacific Northwest
Kamehameha I, first king to unite all Hawaiian islands
*Helen Keller, Alabama author and activist, first deaf and blind person to graduate from college
Eusebio F. Kino, Catholic priest, helped Christianize the indigenous Native American population in what is now Arizona
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