# Mt. Rushmore of your state
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mt-rushmore-of-your-state/683636
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [March 13, 2014, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mt-rushmore-of-your-state/683636 "2014-03-13T19:22:23Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2014, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mt-rushmore-of-your-state/683636/1 "2014-03-13T19:22:23Z")
If your state were to have a Mt. Rushmore, who would be on it?
Some rules:
-Being born there isn’t enough (for instance, Malcolm X was born in Nebraska, however he lived there less than a year).
-This person has to have made an impact on your state, either by what they did there or by living there during a time they made an impact on the nation or world, or by living there long enough as to be considered “one of your own.”
-One state doesn’t necessarily have exclusive claim on an individual (more than one state can put someone on their Mt. Rushmore, as long as this person has some substantial presence in a state).
Make sense?
Michigan:
Henry Ford, Berry Gordy, Gerald Ford, Rosa Parks
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### Author:  [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2014, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mt-rushmore-of-your-state/683636/2 "2014-03-13T19:24:44Z")
Kentucky —Abraham Lincoln, Col. Sanders, Devil Anse Hatfield and Secretariat.
😃
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### Author:  [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2014, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mt-rushmore-of-your-state/683636/3 "2014-03-13T19:28:50Z")
Bill Gates, Russel Wilson, William Boeing, Dan Savage
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### Author:  [@Motorgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Motorgirl)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2014, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mt-rushmore-of-your-state/683636/4 "2014-03-13T19:33:17Z")
Hmmm. Interesting exercise.
Massachusetts.
Paul Revere, Sam Adams, Leonard Nimoy, Henry David Thoreau
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### Author:  [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2014, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mt-rushmore-of-your-state/683636/5 "2014-03-13T19:35:15Z")
Sam Houston, Davy Crockett, Stevie Ray Vaughn, and Willie Nelson.
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### Author:  [@KCB615](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KCB615)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2014, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mt-rushmore-of-your-state/683636/6 "2014-03-13T19:49:50Z")
> [@Motorgirl](#):
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> Massachusetts.
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> Paul Revere, Sam Adams, Leonard Nimoy, Henry David Thoreau
I concur, but you have the wrong Adams. Sam’s cousin John is much more deserving. I might throw John Hancock in instead of Revere, as well.
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### Author:  [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2014, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mt-rushmore-of-your-state/683636/7 "2014-03-13T19:50:11Z")
Washington DC:
Teddy Roosevelt, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington and Abe Lincoln.
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### Author:  [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2014, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mt-rushmore-of-your-state/683636/8 "2014-03-13T19:55:03Z")
> [@madmonk28](#):
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> Washington DC:
> Teddy Roosevelt, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington and Abe Lincoln.
I think I’ve seen this before…
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### Author:  [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2014, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mt-rushmore-of-your-state/683636/9 "2014-03-13T19:58:13Z")
Already [have one](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Mountain), sorta. Yee-haw.
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### Author:  [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2014, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mt-rushmore-of-your-state/683636/10 "2014-03-13T19:58:41Z")
Harry Truman, Thomas Hart Benton, Samuel Clemens, Walter Cronkite
I actually didn’t know about Cronkite until I just Googled out of curiosity.
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### Author:  [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2014, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mt-rushmore-of-your-state/683636/11 "2014-03-13T20:00:29Z")
For New York, I’m going to go with George Clinton, John Jay, Franklin Roosevelt, and Theodore Roosevelt.
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2014, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mt-rushmore-of-your-state/683636/12 "2014-03-13T20:05:00Z")
California
Eliza Tibbets - The first person in California to grow navel oranges.
James W. Marshall - The man who kicked off the California Gold Rush.
D.W. Griffith - The first person to make a motion picture in Hollywood.
Euell Gibbons - Patron Saint of fruits, nuts and flakes.
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### Author:  [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2014, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mt-rushmore-of-your-state/683636/13 "2014-03-13T20:09:10Z")
> [@pravnik](#):
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> Sam Houston, Davy Crockett, Stevie Ray Vaughn, and Willie Nelson.
Wrong.
David Koresh, Charles “Tex” Watson, Ken Lay, and Lee Harvey Oswald.
😉
List of famous Texans: [List of people from Texas - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_from_Texas)
(I did not know that both Wiley Post and “Wrong Way” Corrigan both hail from the state…)
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### Author:  [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2014, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mt-rushmore-of-your-state/683636/14 "2014-03-13T20:10:26Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#):
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> For New York, I’m going to go with George Clinton, John Jay, Franklin Roosevelt, and Theodore Roosevelt.
I’d go for the two Roosevelts, and Grover Cleveland twice.😉
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### Author:  [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2014, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mt-rushmore-of-your-state/683636/15 "2014-03-13T20:12:08Z")
Minnesota would consider such a thing to be too ostentatious.
And we’d be so incredibly passive-aggressive about it that it would never get done.
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### Author:  [@Arrendajo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arrendajo)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2014, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mt-rushmore-of-your-state/683636/16 "2014-03-13T20:18:49Z")
Linus Pauling, Ken Kesey, Phil Knight, and Tom McCall.
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### Author:  [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2014, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mt-rushmore-of-your-state/683636/17 "2014-03-13T20:22:13Z")
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
John Ford
Winslow Homer
Stephen King
It’s hard to pick just four. I had to leave off Andrew Wyeth, Margaret Chase Smith, L.L. Bean, and Joshua Chamberlain.
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### Author:  [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2014, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mt-rushmore-of-your-state/683636/18 "2014-03-13T20:25:54Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#):
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> I think I’ve seen this before…
Probably from the racing presidents at Nats games, it’s where I got the idea.
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### Author:  [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2014, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mt-rushmore-of-your-state/683636/19 "2014-03-13T20:27:16Z")
> [@madmonk28](#):
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> Probably from the racing presidents at Nats games, it’s where I got the idea.
That’s gotta be it. I thought there was a Polish Sausage in there though.
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### Author:  [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2014, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mt-rushmore-of-your-state/683636/20 "2014-03-13T20:30:01Z")
Since I live in the state Mt. Rushmore is actually in and none of the people on it ever lived in or were ever in the state I don’t think\*, I’ll go with Bob Barker, Tom Brokaw, Cheryl Ladd and Catherine Bach. Honorable mention to Mary Hart.
😃
\*Teddy Roosevelt may have been in the state because he was friends with Seth Bullock, but I don’t know.
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