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The Senate maintains over 70 paintings created by some of America's preeminent artists, commemorating many of the great persons and events of our national history.

	Ulysses S. Grant (1868) by William F. Cogswell

Paintings

Abraham Lincoln

America's First Moon Landing, July 21, 1969

Everett McKinley Dirksen

First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation of President Lincoln

Fort Defiance, New Mexico (now Arizona)

Fort Delaware, Delaware

Fort Knox, Maine

Fort Mackinac, Michigan

Fort Scammel and Fort Gorges, Maine

Fort Taylor, Florida

Fort Trumbull, Connecticut

General Marion Inviting a British Officer to Share His Meal

George Washington

George Washington (Patriae Pater)

George Washington at Princeton

Leiv Eiriksson Discovers America A.D. 1000

Margaret Chase Smith

Mike Mansfield

Morris Sheppard

Mrs. Motte Directing Generals Marion and Lee to Burn Her Mansion to Dislodge the British

Nelson Aldrich

Niagara, The Table Rock-Winter

Robert M. La Follette

Sergeants Jasper and Newton Rescuing American Prisoners from the British

Spending Uncle Sam's Money

Telegraph

The Battle of Chapultepec (Storming of Chapultepec)

The Battle of Fort Moultrie

The Florida Case before the Electoral Commission

The Recall of Columbus

The Space Shuttle Challenger


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