A Push for D.C. Representation in Capitol's Vaunted Statuary Hall

The Washington Post | September 25, 2005| | Copyright

If there's room for Zebulon Baird Vance of North Carolina and Uriah Milton Rose of Arkansas, if it's important that South Dakota be represented by William Henry Harrison Beadle and that Hannibal Hamlin stand in for his native state of Maine, then surely, says D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, surely the Capitol's Statuary Hall can provide space and honor for at least one historic figure from the District.

Duke Ellington? Robert Clifton Weaver? Mary Church Terrell?

Right now, there's nobody.

Norton has pressed this point before as part of her unflagging campaign to win the city full recognition ...

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