''Jacob Collamer'' is a marble statue of

Jacob Collamer Jacob Collamer (January 8, 1791 – November 9, 1865) was an American politician from Vermont. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives, as Postmaster General in the cabinet of President Zachary Taylor, and as a U.S. Senator. Born in T ...

Preston Powers Preston Powers (1843 – 1931) was an American sculptor, painter, and teacher, born in Florence, Italy. He is also known as William Preston Powers. Biography Powers studied with his father, Hiram Powers, a well known Neo-classical sculpto ...

, installed in the

United States Capitol The United States Capitol, often called The Capitol or the Capitol Building, is the Seat of government, seat of the Legislature, legislative branch of the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government, which is form ...

, in

Washington D.C. ) , image_skyline = , image_caption = Clockwise from top left: the Washington Monument and Lincoln Memorial on the National Mall, United States Capitol, Logan Circle, Jefferson Memorial, White House, Adams Morgan, Na ...

, as part of the

National Statuary Hall Collection The National Statuary Hall Collection in the United States Capitol is composed of statues donated by individual states to honor persons notable in their history. Limited to two statues per state, the collection was originally set up in the old ...

. It is one of two statues donated by the state of

Vermont Vermont () is a state in the northeast New England region of the United States. Vermont is bordered by the states of Massachusetts to the south, New Hampshire to the east, and New York to the west, and the Canadian province of Quebec to the ...

. The statue was accepted in the collection by

Alexander H. Stephens Alexander Hamilton Stephens (February 11, 1812 – March 4, 1883) was an American politician who served as the Vice President of the Confederate States of America, vice president of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865, and later as the Lis ...

in 1881.Murdock, Myrtle Chaney, ''National Statuary Hall in the Nation’s Capitol'', Monumental Press, Inc., Washington, D.C., 1955 pp. 78–79

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