# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![Octarine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/22d042/32.png) [@Octarine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Octarine)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2014, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mt-rushmore-of-your-state/683636/41 "2014-03-14T01:41:48Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > For New York, I’m going to go with George Clinton, John Jay, Franklin Roosevelt, and Theodore Roosevelt. I’d also consider Frederick Douglass. Ella Fitzgerald and Paul Simon come to mind as well, but maybe that’s just me. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2014, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mt-rushmore-of-your-state/683636/42 "2014-03-14T01:42:02Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > I did not know that both Wiley Post and “Wrong Way” Corrigan both hail from the state… Might as well throw in Jennifer Love Hewitt because she’ll count double. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2014, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mt-rushmore-of-your-state/683636/43 "2014-03-14T01:44:01Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > George Clinton from Parliment Funkadelic? Sorry he is from Plainfield NJ. 😃 He’s a citizen of the galaxy. ---
**Author:** ![missred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missred/32/14096_2.png) [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2014, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mt-rushmore-of-your-state/683636/44 "2014-03-14T02:09:45Z")
Tennessee: David Crockett (he and Sam Houston were ours before going to Texas) Andrew Jackson Elvis Dolly Parton (does she count as a single or double?) ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2014, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mt-rushmore-of-your-state/683636/45 "2014-03-14T02:20:50Z")
Another view from California: The group of oligarch monopolists who ruled California by and for their own greed, and would have had no trouble buying their own Mt. Rushmore for themselves: [Charles Crocker, Leland Stanford, Mark Hopkins, Jr. and C. P. Huntington](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Four_%28Central_Pacific_Railroad%29). ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2014, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mt-rushmore-of-your-state/683636/46 "2014-03-14T02:46:06Z")
> [@missred](#): > > Tennessee: > Dolly Parton (does she count as a single or double?) she would have to be on two peaks. ---
**Author:** ![Invisible\_Chimp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f05b48/32.png) [@Invisible\_Chimp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Invisible_Chimp)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2014, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mt-rushmore-of-your-state/683636/47 "2014-03-14T02:48:01Z")
> [@Arrendajo](#): > > Linus Pauling, Ken Kesey, Phil Knight, and Tom McCall. Beat me to it and it’s hard to argue with those picks. The only one I would consider replacing would be Kesey with Matt Groening, Beverley Cleary, or Ursula LeGuin. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2014, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mt-rushmore-of-your-state/683636/48 "2014-03-14T03:13:21Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Kansas doesn’t get a Mt. Rushmore. You know, because you have to have mtns. first. 😛 Hey, I climb up Mount Oread every day – to get from where I park my car to my office front door. I kid you not. I concur with the Kansas Rushmore previously mentioned, except I’d replace the astronomer with John Brown (the abolitionist), and the Treasury Secretary with James Naismith (the inventor of basketball). Neither spent their whole life here, but important chunks of it. ---
**Author:** ![Nametag](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nametag/32/406_2.png) [@Nametag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nametag)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2014, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mt-rushmore-of-your-state/683636/49 "2014-03-14T03:16:47Z")
Man, I feel so unhip. California: Juan Cabrillo John C. Frémont John Muir Mark Twain Of course none of them were born here! It’s California! ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2014, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mt-rushmore-of-your-state/683636/50 "2014-03-14T03:32:50Z")
OK: Wiley Post Will Rogers Barry Switzer Garth Brooks ---
**Author:** ![CrazyCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CrazyCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrazyCatLady)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2014, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mt-rushmore-of-your-state/683636/51 "2014-03-14T03:33:46Z")
> [@Ellen\_Cherry](#): > > Kentucky —Abraham Lincoln, Col. Sanders, Devil Anse Hatfield and Secretariat. > > 😃 No Daniel Boone or Man O War? ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2014, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mt-rushmore-of-your-state/683636/52 "2014-03-14T03:38:45Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Born, died and was buried in New Jersey. Cleveland is ours. His political career was in New York, and he was elected to the presidency while governor of the state. But you can have one of him.😉 ---
**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, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mt-rushmore-of-your-state/683636/53 "2014-03-14T03:50:54Z")
> [@Nametag](#): > > Of course none of them were born here! It’s California! The CA monument should just be a giant sign that reads, “Welcome to California…Now, Please Leave!” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Reloy3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c68b51/32.png) [@Reloy3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reloy3)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2014, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mt-rushmore-of-your-state/683636/54 "2014-03-14T04:12:59Z")
WYOMING Jim Bridger, Chief Washakie, Nellie Tayloe Ross, Jackson Pollock. Alternatives: Owen Wister, Curt Gowdy, Harrison Ford, Chris LaDeux ---
**Author:** ![Lacunae\_Matata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lacunae\_Matata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lacunae_Matata)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2014, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mt-rushmore-of-your-state/683636/55 "2014-03-14T04:54:00Z")
> [@Labrador\_Deceiver](#): > > Georgia: > > Martin Luther King > Jimmy Carter > Margaret Mitchell > Hank Aaron > > ETA: probably replace Jimmy with James Oglethorpe. I like your choices, but then I wonder how we can leave off Juliette Gordon Lowe, Ray Charles, or Dr. Crawford W. Long. Or Johnny Mercer, Conrad Aiken, Bobby Jones, Jessye Norman? I think my final four would have to be MLK, Jimmy Carter, Margaret Mitchell, and Juliette Gordon Lowe. ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2014, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mt-rushmore-of-your-state/683636/56 "2014-03-14T05:18:12Z")
Illinois: Potter Palmer, Studs Terkel, Miles Davis and Clarence Darrow. I assume they would need to be deceased or I would have found a way to include Steve Albini. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2014, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mt-rushmore-of-your-state/683636/57 "2014-03-14T05:32:40Z")
> [@Lacunae\_Matata](#): > > I like your choices, but then I wonder how we can leave off Juliette Gordon Lowe, Ray Charles, or Dr. Crawford W. Long. Or Johnny Mercer, Conrad Aiken, Bobby Jones, Jessye Norman? > > I think my final four would have to be MLK, Jimmy Carter, Margaret Mitchell, and Juliette Gordon Lowe. Or you could take the low road and go with Paula Dean, Hulk Hogan, Burt Reynolds, and Ryan Seacrest. ---
**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, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mt-rushmore-of-your-state/683636/58 "2014-03-14T11:59:47Z")
> [@Lacunae\_Matata](#): > > I like your choices, but then I wonder how we can leave off Juliette Gordon Lowe, Ray Charles, or Dr. Crawford W. Long. Or Johnny Mercer, Conrad Aiken, Bobby Jones, Jessye Norman? > > I think my final four would have to be MLK, Jimmy Carter, Margaret Mitchell, and Juliette Gordon Lowe. My wife mentioned Bobby Jones, which I liked. We really don’t have much of a claim to Ray Charles, though. He moved to Florida as an infant. We love him most for the song. Do you think Juliette Gordon Lowe is known well enough by the average Georgian? Also, I’m not sure where the above poster got the idea that Burt Reynolds is Georgian, or that Hulk Hogan spent any amount of time here. Someone else can have those guys. ---
**Author:** ![DoctorJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctorj/32/2904_2.png) [@DoctorJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoctorJ)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2014, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mt-rushmore-of-your-state/683636/59 "2014-03-14T12:22:21Z")
> [@Ellen\_Cherry](#): > > Kentucky —Abraham Lincoln, Col. Sanders, Devil Anse Hatfield and Secretariat. > > 😃 Gotta have Adolph Rupp. ---
**Author:** ![Caffeine.addict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f475e1/32.png) [@Caffeine.addict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caffeine.addict)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2014, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mt-rushmore-of-your-state/683636/60 "2014-03-14T13:05:00Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > Washington DC: > Teddy Roosevelt, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington and Abe Lincoln. No way, although most of them were here as long as the Nationals have been. My list is Marvin Gaye, Chuck Brown, Marion Barry\*, Boss Shepherd, and whoever invented the half-smoke. - I may not like him very much, but for better of for worse, he has been a major player in the District for a long time and has left his mark on the District. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mt-rushmore-of-your-state/683636.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mt-rushmore-of-your-state/683636.md?page=4)