totally random garbage: Statuary Hall

Are you familiar with Statuary Hall? Basically, each state is allowed two statues of their famous sons and daughters to place in the US Capitol.

These statues include such famous Americans as George Washington, Andrew Jackson, Samuel Adams, Daniel Webster, and Henry Clay. Unfortunately, they also include no-names like Daisy Lee Gaston Bates, George Laird Shoup, Oliver Hazard Perry Norton, William Henry Harrison Beadle, and Henry Mower Rice.

Which got me thinking … Who are the most obscure figures among these 100 statues?

Colorado

Florence Sabin

Doctor
Med school prof
Was not behind that vaccine you’re thinking of

Alternate: Kit Carson

Florida

John Gorrie

Doctor
Created an ice-making machine
“Impoverished, … sought to raise money to manufacture his machine, but the venture failed when his partner died.” [www.visitthecapitol.gov/apps/nshc/]
“Humiliated by criticism, financially ruined, and his health broken, … died in seclusion.”

Alternate: Osceola

Frances E Willard

President, Evanston College for Women
President, National Women's Temperance Union, Women's Christian Temperance Union, National Council of Women

Alternates: Lincoln, Jane Addams, Carl Sandburg, Frank Lloyd Wright

Kentucky

Ephraim McDowell

Surgeon
Performed the first ovariotomy in the US
“Removed a gall stone and repaired a hernia [for James Polk]”
Helped found Centre College

Alternates: George Rogers Clark, Daniel Boone, Muhammad Ali

Minnesota

Maria L Sanford

Taught at Univ. of Minnesota
“Traveled throughout the United States delivering more than 1,000 patriotic speeches”

Alternate: Hubert Humphrey

Nevada

Sarah Winnemucca

Acted as go-between for her tribe and the US Army
“As a spokesperson for her people … gave over 300 speeches to win support for them, and she met with President Rutherford B. Hayes and Secretary of the Interior Carl Schurz”
Wrote a book
Started a school

Alternate: Howard Hughes

New Mexico

Po’Pay

Convicted of sorcery, flogged
Organized the Pueblo Revolt

NOTE: “No image or written description of Po'pay is known to exist”

Alternate: Geronimo

Oregon

Jason Lee

Missionary
“Helped to draft a petition for the establishment of a territorial government, and … journeyed east to present the petition in Washington”
“Presided over the preliminary meeting for territorial organization held at Champoeg in 1841”
Helped found Willamette College

Oops, wrong one

John McLoughlin

Doctor

Head honcho, Columbia Dept., Hudson Bay Company
Eventual American citizen

Alternates: Linus Pauling, Chief Joseph, Wayne Morse

South Dakota

William Henry Harrison Beadle

Brigadier general in Civil War
Surveyor general of Dakota Territory
State house rep, superintendent of public instruction
President, Madison State Normal School

Alternates: Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull

Utah

Martha Hughes Cannon

Doctor
State senator
“Gave speeches at the World's Columbian Exposition, the 50th anniversary of the Seneca Falls Convention, and testified before the U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary”
Practiced polygamy, being the 4th wife of church leader Angus Cannon