United States Senate Vice Presidential Bust Collection
The United States Senate Vice Presidential Bust Collection is a series of 45 busts in the United States Capitol, each one bearing the likenesses of a Vice President of the United States. Each sculpture, from John Adams to Dick Cheney, honors the role of the Vice President as both a member of the executive branch and as president of the Senate.
The Joint Committee on the Library, acting under a resolution of May 13, 1886, was the first to commission busts of the vice presidents to occupy the niches in the new Senate Chamber. After the first 20 busts filled the niches surrounding the Chamber, later additions were placed throughout the Senate wing of the Capitol. The collection is incomplete, since the busts of former Vice Presidents Al Gore, and Joe Biden, as well as current Vice President Mike Pence are in the process of being created.
List of busts
Vice President | Image | Sculptor | Year completed | Notes |
John Adams | Daniel Chester French | 1890 | ||
Thomas Jefferson | Moses Jacob Ezekiel | 1888 | ||
Aaron Burr | Jacques Jouvenal | 1893 | ||
George Clinton | Vittorio A. Ciani | 1894 | ||
Elbridge Gerry | Herbert Samuel Adams | 1892 | ||
Daniel D. Tompkins | Charles Henry Niehaus | 1891 | ||
John C. Calhoun | Theodore Augustus Mills | 1896 | ||
Martin Van Buren | Ulric Stonewall Jackson Dunbar | 1894 | ||
Richard M. Johnson | James Paxton Voorhees | 1895 | ||
John Tyler | William C. McCauslen | 1898 | ||
George M. Dallas | Henry Jackson Ellicott | 1893 | ||
Millard Fillmore | Robert Cushing | 1895 | ||
William R. King | William C. McCauslen | 1896 | ||
John C. Breckinridge | James Paxton Voorhees | 1896 | ||
Hannibal Hamlin | Franklin Bachelder Simmons | 1889 | ||
Andrew Johnson | William C. McCauslen | 1900 | ||
Schuyler Colfax | Frances Murphy Goodwin | 1897 | ||
Henry Wilson | Daniel Chester French | 1885 | ||
William A. Wheeler | Edward Clark Potter | 1892 | ||
Chester A. Arthur | Augustus Saint-Gaudens | 1891 | ||
Thomas A. Hendricks | Ulric Stonewall Jackson Dunbar | 1890 | ||
Levi P. Morton | Frank Edwin Elwell | 1891 | ||
Adlai E. Stevenson | Franklin Bachelder Simmons | 1894 | ||
Garret A. Hobart | Frank Edwin Elwell | 1901 | ||
Theodore Roosevelt | James Earle Fraser | 1910 | ||
Charles W. Fairbanks | Franklin Bachelder Simmons | 1905 | ||
James S. Sherman | Bessie Onahotema Potter Vonnoh | 1911 | ||
Thomas R. Marshall | Moses A. Wainer Dykaar | 1918 | ||
Calvin Coolidge | Moses A. Wainer Dykaar | 1927 | ||
Charles G. Dawes | Jo Davidson | 1930 | ||
Charles Curtis | Moses A. Wainer Dykaar | 1934 | ||
John N. Garner | James Earle Fraser | 1943 | ||
Henry A. Wallace | Jo Davidson | 1947 | ||
Harry S. Truman | Charles Keck | 1947 | ||
Alben W. Barkley | Kalervo Kallio | 1958 | ||
Richard M. Nixon | Gualberto Rocchi | 1966 | ||
Lyndon B. Johnson | Jimilu Mason | 1966 | ||
Hubert H. Humphrey | Walker Kirtland Hancock | 1982 | ||
Spiro T. Agnew | William Frederick Behrends | 1995 | ||
Gerald R. Ford | Walker Kirtland Hancock | 1985 | ||
Nelson A. Rockefeller | John Calabro | 1987 | ||
Walter F. Mondale | Judson R. Nelson | 1987 | ||
George H. W. Bush | Walker Kirtland Hancock | 1990 | ||
J. Danforth Quayle | Frederick E. Hart | 2002 | ||
Albert A. Gore, Jr. | Incomplete | "In process" | TBD | |
Richard B. Cheney | William Frederick Behrends | 2015 | ||
Joseph R. Biden, Jr. | Incomplete | "Not yet commissioned" | TBD |