# Mt. Rushmore of your state **URL:** \ **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\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2014, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mt-rushmore-of-your-state/683636/21 "2014-03-13T20:30:38Z")
New Jersey: Springsteen, Sinatra, Edison, Einstein I know that’s two singers but screw it. I know Einstein just spend the last years of his life in Princeton but we are claiming him. Edison wasn’t born here but he is the Wizard of Menlo Park. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2014, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mt-rushmore-of-your-state/683636/22 "2014-03-13T20:32:31Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > Wrong. > > David Koresh, Charles “Tex” Watson, Ken Lay, and Lee Harvey Oswald. > > 😉 Hm, edgy. Mind you, if I had my way it would just be the Butthole Surfers. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2014, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mt-rushmore-of-your-state/683636/23 "2014-03-13T20:32:52Z")
OHIO Ulysses S. Grant, Pete Rose, Martin Sheen, John Lithgow ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2014, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mt-rushmore-of-your-state/683636/24 "2014-03-13T20:34:10Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > I’d go for the two Roosevelts, and Grover Cleveland twice.😉 Born, died and was buried in New Jersey. Cleveland is ours. Still didn’t make it on my mountain. But he was on the first draft. > [@](#): > > For New York, I’m going to go with George Clinton, John Jay, Franklin Roosevelt, and Theodore Roosevelt. George Clinton from Parliment Funkadelic? Sorry he is from Plainfield NJ. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2014, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mt-rushmore-of-your-state/683636/25 "2014-03-13T20:34:42Z")
Wisconsin (my home state): - Politician (and leader of the Progressive movement) [Robert LaFollette](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_M._La_Follette,_Sr.) - Harry Houdini (grew up in Appleton) - Frank Lloyd Wright - Vince Lombardi (yes, I know, born and raised in New York City, but he made his lasting mark in Green Bay) ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2014, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mt-rushmore-of-your-state/683636/26 "2014-03-13T20:37:54Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > OHIO > Ulysses S. Grant, Pete Rose, Martin Sheen, John Lithgow Hey, it’s your Mt. Rushmore, but if it were me, I’d find room for John Glenn or Neil Armstrong somewhere in there. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![PeacePlease](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/71c47a/32.png) [@PeacePlease](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PeacePlease)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2014, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mt-rushmore-of-your-state/683636/27 "2014-03-13T20:52:52Z")
Sandra Day O’Connor, Bruce Babbitt, Barry Goldwater and Alice Cooper. That’s AZ, folks. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2014, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mt-rushmore-of-your-state/683636/28 "2014-03-13T21:07:30Z")
Another MA idea John Adams, John Hancock, JFK. John Naismath ---
**Author:** ![Southpaw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@Southpaw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southpaw)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2014, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mt-rushmore-of-your-state/683636/29 "2014-03-13T23:54:47Z")
Abraham Lincoln - POTUS Jane Addams - Social Worker Carl Sandburg - Poet Benny Goodman - King of Swing ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2014, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mt-rushmore-of-your-state/683636/30 "2014-03-14T00:18:51Z")
For Kansas I’m having a hard time choosing. It depends on what you think is important. Dwight D, Eisenhower: Allied commander in WWII, President of the United States. Clyde Tombaugh, astronomer Karl Menninger, psychiatric pioneer Georgia Neese Gray, first female Treasurer of the United States, ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2014, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mt-rushmore-of-your-state/683636/31 "2014-03-14T00:23:02Z")
Kansas doesn’t get a Mt. Rushmore. You know, because you have to have mtns. first. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2014, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mt-rushmore-of-your-state/683636/32 "2014-03-14T00:31:23Z")
> [@PeacePlease](#): > > Sandra Day O’Connor, Bruce Babbitt, Barry Goldwater and Alice Cooper. > > That’s AZ, folks. The idea of Alice Cooper on Mt Rushmore makes me happy. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2014, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mt-rushmore-of-your-state/683636/33 "2014-03-14T00:32:55Z")
South Cackalackey: [Wade Hampton III](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wade_Hampton_III), [Ben Tillman](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Tillman), Strom Thurmond, and Ernest Hollings. ---
**Author:** ![Labrador\_Deceiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Labrador\_Deceiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labrador_Deceiver)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2014, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mt-rushmore-of-your-state/683636/34 "2014-03-14T00:34:11Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Kansas doesn’t get a Mt. Rushmore. You know, because youhave to have mtns. first. 😛 They can have a Corn Rushmore. ---
**Author:** ![Labrador\_Deceiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Labrador\_Deceiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labrador_Deceiver)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2014, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mt-rushmore-of-your-state/683636/35 "2014-03-14T00:36:30Z")
Georgia: Martin Luther King Jimmy Carter Margaret Mitchell Hank Aaron ETA: probably replace Jimmy with James Oglethorpe. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2014, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mt-rushmore-of-your-state/683636/36 "2014-03-14T01:08:21Z")
Virginia: we already have half of the _actual_ Mt. Rushmore! I’ll add James Madison and Patrick Henry to Washington and Jefferson. (Though I haven’t lived in VA in \>15 years, I’ve still spent far more of my life there than anywhere else, and still think of it as home.) ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2014, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mt-rushmore-of-your-state/683636/37 "2014-03-14T01:21:46Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > 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. Despite the claims of racism, Junipero Serra should be on here. And probably Thomas Starr King, who worked hard to prevent California from seceding and declaring itself neutral during the Civil War. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2014, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mt-rushmore-of-your-state/683636/38 "2014-03-14T01:26:13Z")
Maryland: so many different ways to go! John Wilkes Booth, Spiro T. Agnew, Alger Hiss, Dr. Samuel Mudd Johnny Unitas, Brooks Robinson, Eddie Murray, Cal Ripken, Jr. Frederick Douglass, Thurgood Marshall, Harriet Tubman, Zora Neale Hurston Francis Scott Key, H.L. Mencken, Upton Sinclair, Nancy D’Alesandro Pelosi ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2014, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mt-rushmore-of-your-state/683636/39 "2014-03-14T01:35:19Z")
Alaska: William Egan: first governor and architect of the Alaska Constitution Bob Reeve: Famous pioneer glacier pilot and creator/owner of Reeve Aleutian Airlines Joseph Juneau: co-discoverer of the Juneau gold strike Sydney Laurence: world famous artist who captured the grandeur of Alaska on canvas ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2014, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mt-rushmore-of-your-state/683636/40 "2014-03-14T01:36:39Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > > [@silenus](#): > > > > 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. > > Despite the claims of racism, Junipero Serra should be on here. And probably Thomas Starr King, who worked hard to prevent California from seceding and declaring itself neutral during the Civil War. Any California monument must, I say must include [Emperor Norton I.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Norton) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mt-rushmore-of-your-state/683636.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mt-rushmore-of-your-state/683636.md?page=3)