Statue of Jefferson Davis (U.S. Capitol)

Jefferson Davis
The statue in the National Statuary Hall Collection
Artist	Henry Augustus Lukeman
Medium	Bronze sculpture
Subject	Jefferson Davis
Location	First St SE, Washington, D.C., United States

Jefferson Davis, created by Henry Augustus Lukeman, is a bronze sculpture of Jefferson Davis – a U.S. Senator, U.S. Secretary of War, plantation owner and the only President of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War – commissioned by the U.S. State of Mississippi for inclusion in National Statuary Hall Collection at the United States Capitol's National Statuary Hall, in Washington, D.C.^[1] The statue was controversial at the time of its unveiling and there have been multiple efforts to remove it from the Capitol since 2015.