United_States_Senate_Vice_Presidential_Bust_Collection

United States Senate Vice Presidential Bust Collection

United States Senate Vice Presidential Bust Collection

Series of busts in the United States Capitol

The United States Senate Vice Presidential Bust Collection is a series of 46 busts in the United States Capitol, each one bearing the likenesses of a vice president of the United States. Each sculpture, from John Adams to Dick Cheney, honors the role of the vice president as both a member of the executive branch and as president of the Senate.

The 111th United States Senate inside the Senate chamber in 2009, showing busts on view in the visitors gallery.
A similar view of the Senate chamber, circa 1873, that shows the empty niches where the first busts were placed.

The Joint Committee on the Library, acting under a resolution of May 13, 1886, was the first to commission busts of the vice presidents to occupy the niches in the new Senate Chamber. After the first 20 busts filled the niches surrounding the Chamber, later additions were placed throughout the Senate wing of the Capitol. The collection is incomplete, since the busts of former vice presidents Joe Biden and Mike Pence are in the process of being created. The bust of Kamala Harris will not be commissioned until she leaves office.[1][2]

List of busts

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Notes

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    Due to the sculptor's copyright, only images of busts carved before 1925 are included in this article, as well as busts whose sculptor died at least 70 years ago and busts that never had a copyright to begin with.

References

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    Senate Vice Presidential Bust Collection, United States Senate.
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    The Vice Presidential Bust Collection, United States Senate.
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    John Adams. United States Senate. Accessed January 3, 2016.
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    Thomas Jefferson. United States Senate. Accessed January 3, 2016.
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    Aaron Burr. United States Senate. Accessed January 3, 2016.
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    George Clinton. United States Senate. Accessed January 3, 2016.
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    Elbridge Gerry. United States Senate. Accessed January 3, 2016.
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    Daniel D. Tompkins. United States Senate. Accessed January 3, 2016.
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    John C. Calhoun. United States Senate. Accessed January 3, 2016.
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    John Tyler. United States Senate. Accessed January 3, 2016.
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    Millard Fillmore. United States Senate. Accessed January 3, 2016.
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    William R. King. United States Senate. Accessed January 3, 2016.
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    John C. Breckenridge. United States Senate. Accessed January 3, 2016.
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    Hannibal Hamlin. United States Senate. Accessed January 3, 2016.
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    Andrew Johnson. United States Senate. Accessed January 3, 2016.
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    Schuyler Colfax. United States Senate. Accessed January 3, 2016.
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    Henry Wilson. United States Senate. Accessed January 3, 2016.
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    William A. Wheeler. United States Senate. Accessed January 3, 2016.
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    Chester A. Arthur. United States Senate. Accessed January 3, 2016.
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    Thomas A. Hendricks. United States Senate. Accessed January 3, 2016.
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    Levi P. Morton. United States Senate. Accessed January 3, 2016.
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    James S. Sherman. United States Senate. Accessed August 4, 2023.
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    Thomas R. Marshall. United States Senate. Accessed August 4, 2023.
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    Calvin Coolidge. United States Senate. Accessed August 4, 2023.
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    Charles G. Dawes. United States Senate. Accessed August 4, 2023.
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    Charles Curtis. United States Senate. Accessed August 4, 2023.
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    John N. Garner. United States Senate. Accessed August 4, 2023.
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    Henry A. Wallace. United States Senate. Accessed August 4, 2023.
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    Harry S. Truman. United States Senate. Accessed August 4, 2023.
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    Alben W. Barkley. United States Senate. Accessed August 4, 2023.
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    Richard M. Nixon. United States Senate. Accessed August 4, 2023.
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    Lyndon B. Johnson. United States Senate. Accessed August 4, 2023.
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    Hubert H. Humphrey. United States Senate. Accessed August 4, 2023.
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    Spiro T. Agnew. United States Senate. Accessed August 4, 2023.
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    Gerald R. Ford. United States Senate. Accessed August 4, 2023.
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    Nelson A. Rockefeller. United States Senate. Accessed August 4, 2023.
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    Walter F. Mondale. United States Senate. Accessed August 4, 2023.
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    J. Danforth Quayle. United States Senate. Accessed August 4, 2023.
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    Richard B. Cheney. United States Senate. Accessed August 4, 2023.
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