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, Joe Biden, and Mike Pence are in the process of being created. The bust of Kamala Harris will not be commissioned until she leaves office.^[1][2]

List of busts[]

Vice President	Image[note 1]	Sculptor	Year completed	Notes
John Adams		Daniel Chester French	1890	[3]
Thomas Jefferson		Moses Jacob Ezekiel	1888	[4]
Aaron Burr		Jacques Jouvenal	1893	[5]
George Clinton		Vittorio A. Ciani	1894	[6]
Elbridge Gerry			1892	[7]
Daniel D. Tompkins		Charles Henry Niehaus	1891	[8]
John C. Calhoun		Theodore Augustus Mills	1896	[9]
Martin Van Buren		Ulric Stonewall Jackson Dunbar	1894	[10]
Richard M. Johnson			1895	[11]
John Tyler		William C. McCauslen	1898	[12]
George M. Dallas		Henry Jackson Ellicott	1893	[13]
Millard Fillmore		Robert Cushing	1895	[14]
William R. King		William C. McCauslen	1896	[15]
John C. Breckinridge			1896	[16]
Hannibal Hamlin		Franklin Bachelder Simmons	1889	[17]
Andrew Johnson		William C. McCauslen	1900	[18]
Schuyler Colfax			1897	[19]
Henry Wilson		Daniel Chester French	1885	[20]
William A. Wheeler		Edward Clark Potter	1892	[21]
Chester A. Arthur		Augustus Saint-Gaudens	1891	[22]
Thomas A. Hendricks		Ulric Stonewall Jackson Dunbar	1890	[23]
Levi P. Morton		Frank Edwin Elwell	1891	[24]
Adlai E. Stevenson		Franklin Bachelder Simmons	1894	[25]
Garret A. Hobart		Frank Edwin Elwell	1901	[26]
Theodore Roosevelt		James Earle Fraser	1910	[27]
Charles W. Fairbanks		Franklin Bachelder Simmons	1905	[28]
James S. Sherman		Bessie Onahotema Potter Vonnoh	1911	[29]
Thomas R. Marshall			1918	[30]
Calvin Coolidge			1927	[31]
Charles G. Dawes	–	Jo Davidson	1930	[32]
Charles Curtis			1934	[33]
John N. Garner	–	James Earle Fraser	1943	[34]
Henry A. Wallace	–	Jo Davidson	1947	[35]
Harry S. Truman		Charles Keck	1947	[36]
Alben W. Barkley	–	Kalervo Kallio	1958	[37]
Richard M. Nixon	–		1966	[38]
Lyndon B. Johnson	–	Jimilu Mason	1966	[39]
Hubert H. Humphrey	–	Walker Kirtland Hancock	1982	[40]
Spiro T. Agnew	–		1995	[41]
Gerald R. Ford	–	Walker Kirtland Hancock	1985	[42]
Nelson A. Rockefeller	–	John Calabro	1987	[43]
Walter F. Mondale	–		1987	[44]
George H. W. Bush	–	Walker Kirtland Hancock	1990	[45]
J. Danforth Quayle	–	Frederick E. Hart	2002	[46]
Albert A. Gore, Jr.	Incomplete	"In process"	TBD	[47]
Richard B. Cheney	–		2015	[48]
Joseph R. Biden, Jr.	Incomplete	"Not yet commissioned"	TBD	[47]
Michael R. Pence	Incomplete	"Not yet commissioned"	TBD	[47]

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