Amelia Earhart Statue Headed for Washington

Amelia Earhart will soon be found in the U.S. Capitol. Her statue that is. Next month, on July 27, Congress will hold a statue dedication ceremony unveiling a bronze Earhart statue in Statuary Hall, a large room on the House of Representatives side of the Capitol that is a frequent stop for tourists. TOP VIDEOS Top Videos WATCH MORE We discuss the Kansas City Royals’ first base makeover andmore potential moves × One of the most famous pilots in American history, Earhart will officially join former President Dwight Eisenhower as the two statues representing Kansas in the U.S. Capitol. Eisenhower’s statue is in the Capitol rotunda. It’s an event more than two decades in the making. Each state gets two statues of in the U.S. Capitol, according to a law creating a National Statuary Hall in 1864. The person honored must be dead and a citizen of the state they represent. Kansas originally sent statues of former Gov. George Washington Glick and former U.S. Sen. John James Ingalls in 1914 and 1905, respectively. The Kansas Legislature voted in 1999 to replace the statues of Glick and Ingalls with Eisenhower and Earhart. Eisenhower’s statue — made of bronze by the artist Jim Brothers — arrived in 2003.