Statue of John C. Calhoun

John C. Calhoun
The sculpture in the National Statuary Hall Collection
Artist	Frederick Ruckstull
Medium	Marble sculpture
Subject	John C. Calhoun
Location	Washington, D.C., United States

John C. Calhoun is a marble sculpture depicting the American statesman of the same name by Frederick Ruckstull, installed in the United States Capitol's crypt, in Washington, D.C., as part of the National Statuary Hall Collection. The statue was gifted by the U.S. state of South Carolina in 1910.^[1]

The statue is one of three that Ruckstull has had placed in the Collection.^[2]

References

^ "John Caldwell Calhoun". Architect of the Capitol. Retrieved October 19, 2017.
^ Viles, Philip H., National Statuary Hall: Guidebook for a Walking Tour, Published by Philip H. Viles, Tulsa, OK, 1997, p. 114.

External links

Media related to John C. Calhoun by Frederick Ruckstull at Wikimedia Commons

National Statuary Hall Collection

Statues

Replaced	William Allen Charles Brantley Aycock Thomas Hart Benton William Jennings Bryan Zachariah Chandler Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry George Washington Glick John Campbell Greenway James Harlan John James Ingalls Thomas Starr King Robert E. Lee Julius Sterling Morton Uriah M. Rose Edmund Kirby Smith