# Statuary Hall

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/statuary-hall/688014>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [May 8, 2014, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/statuary-hall/688014 "2014-05-08T23:39:18Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![WreckingCrew](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wreckingcrew/32/4080_2.png) [@WreckingCrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WreckingCrew)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2014, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/statuary-hall/688014/21 "2014-05-09T20:07:50Z")

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Rhode Island - I am going with Nat Greene and Roger Williams.

I win.

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**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2014, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/statuary-hall/688014/22 "2014-05-09T22:26:45Z")

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Wisconsin kept Fighting Bob Lafollette, even though if he’d come back from the dead and run on his same principles they’d paint him red and string him up.

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**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2014, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/statuary-hall/688014/23 "2014-05-09T22:36:06Z")

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Maryland - Francis Scott Key and Lord Baltimore, George Calvert.

Nope. John Hanson (President of the Continental Congress) and Charles Carroll (Senator and signatory on the Declaration of Independence). Both good choices.

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**Author:** ![cher3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cher3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cher3)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2014, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/statuary-hall/688014/24 "2014-05-09T22:42:52Z")

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I guessed one right. Actually, I guessed both, but hoped that I wasn’t correct about the second.

California: Fr. Junipero Serra and Ronald Reagan.

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**Author:** ![AppallingGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AppallingGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AppallingGael)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2014, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/statuary-hall/688014/25 "2014-05-10T02:35:50Z")

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New York: George Clinton was spoiled for me, and I was not yet spoiled by Livingston, so I was guessing Hamilton for the other (though I did remember that the Hall was filled with surprising choices).

For mine, I ruled ineligible everyone on the actual Mt. Rushmore and the people I picked for my personal NYS Mt. Rushmore a little while ago here, so…FDR and Walt Whitman.

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