American most deserving of a monument on the Washington Mall...

[SaveElmer]

That does not currently have one...

Not including Martin Luter King...one is under construction for him...

Adams and Grant both deserve one...

Adams for obvious reasons...

Grant is the most underrated man in American history in my opinion...

Think about what the guy accomplished... only second to Lincoln in terms of who was responsible for saving the union...

Adams by a nose though!

[saltpoint]

1. John Steinbeck and Georgia O'Keeffe.

[Vickers]

2. Kurt Vonnegut & Mark Twain n/t

[saltpoint]

3. Red Cloud and Harriet Tubman.

[Colobo]

5. Yes.

[ClassWarrior]

7. Both excellent choices.

NGU.

[asdjrocky]

4. Jack London

For his contributions to the Progressive movement.

[blm]

6. The person who uncovered more government corruption than any other lawmaker

in modern history.

We wouldn't know HALF the facts we know about the last 40 years of illegal operations by BushInc if it hadn't been for the one man who insisted on the pursuit, even when his own party tried to stop him.

[asdjrocky]

8. and how could I forget?

[saltpoint]

9. Two Wisconsin folks: John Muir and Fightin' Bob LaFollette.

[saltpoint]

10. Walt Whitman and Sacajawea.

[TygrBright]

11. Chief Seattle. Also Queen Liliuokalani. n/t

[saltpoint]

14. Yes.

:thumbsup:

[ClassWarrior]

21. Yes.

NGU.

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

12. Ira Craddock should be on the dollar bill.

But she was kind of a nut, despite being wonderful, so I will propose a memorial to her de facto successor.

Margaret Sanger

[dsc]

13. Thurgood Marshall

The legal architect of desegregation and the first black Supreme Court Justice.

[GreenInNC]

15. agreed

[saltpoint]

18. His monument should go up sooner rather than later.

And I want Alberto Gonzalez to dig the base in a driving rain before the sculpture is installed.

Naked.

[saltpoint]

16. Wendell Berry.

[ellisonz]

17. Ronald Reagan

:sarcasm:

[seasat]

19. Because pigeons need something deserving of poop. nt

[ClassWarrior]

20. His monument already sleeps on the benches of the Mall.

NGU.

[troubleinwinter]

22. Check this AMAZING site

Americans Who Tell The Truth: http://www.americanswhotellthetruth.org/pgs/portrait_thumbs.html

[drexel dave]

23. Larry Flynt

The hillbilly king of free speech.

[Labors of Hercules]

24. Teddy Roosevelt already has a kickass memorial...

An entire Island on the Potomac within spitting distance of the Lincoln Memorial:

[NoPasaran]

25. I join in your support of Lincoln's partner in saving the Union

General Grant, the Architect of Victory

[knight_of_the_star]

26. Jackson shouldn't be on there

He was a giant in his time but I wouldn't call him a great man worthy of such a monument.

[SaveElmer]

27. Into terms of historical scholarship...not too many Pesidents have an "age" named after them...

In my opinion, other than Lincoln, Jackson was the most important President of the 19th century...redefined the presidency in ways we take for granted today...

I agree that I would not build a monument to him specifically...but it isn't a completely crazy notion...

[knight_of_the_star]

33. Cherokee v. Georgia as far as I'm concerned disqualifies him

That and the Jacksonian Age is more defined by the nature of the politics of the time which Jackson did have impact on, not because it was a Golden Age of some kind.

[slick8790]

28. Jerry Garcia. n/t

[Kucinich4America]

29. I'll second that!

This might be a good picture for them to use as a model.



It's gotta be in tie-dyed psychedelic colors though. No boring old granite.

[alphafemale]

30. Harriet Tubman, Fannie Lou Hamer, Rosa Parks

to name a few.

[donsu]

31. the Suffragettes - got women the vote

nt

[cali]

32. Eleanor Roosevelt

I'm so sick of only men being considered worthy of such honors.