Statue of Jefferson Davis (U.S. Capitol) (original) (raw)

Jefferson Davis, created by Henry Augustus Lukeman, is a bronze sculpture of Jefferson Davis – a U.S. Senator, U.S. Secretary of War, plantation owner and the only President of the Confederate States of America – commissioned by the U.S. State of Mississippi for inclusion in National Statuary Hall Collection at the United States Capitol's National Statuary Hall, in Washington, D.C. The statue was widely controversial at the time of its unveiling and there have been many efforts to remove it from the Capitol since the 2010s.