United States Senate Vice Presidential Bust Collection


The United States Senate Vice Presidential Bust Collection is a series of 45 busts in the United States Capitol, each one bearing the likenesses of a Vice President of the United States. Each sculpture, from John Adams to Dick Cheney, honors the role of the Vice President as both a member of the executive branch and as president of the Senate.
The Joint Committee on the Library, acting under a resolution of May 13, 1886, was the first to commission busts of the vice presidents to occupy the niches in the new Senate Chamber. After the first 20 busts filled the niches surrounding the Chamber, later additions were placed throughout the Senate wing of the Capitol. The collection is incomplete, since the busts of former Vice Presidents Al Gore, and Joe Biden, as well as current Vice President Mike Pence are in the process of being created.

List of busts

Vice PresidentImageSculptorYear completedNotes
John AdamsDaniel Chester French1890
Thomas JeffersonMoses Jacob Ezekiel1888
Aaron BurrJacques Jouvenal1893
George ClintonVittorio A. Ciani1894
Elbridge GerryHerbert Samuel Adams1892
Daniel D. TompkinsCharles Henry Niehaus1891
John C. CalhounTheodore Augustus Mills1896
Martin Van BurenUlric Stonewall Jackson Dunbar1894
Richard M. JohnsonJames Paxton Voorhees1895
John TylerWilliam C. McCauslen1898
George M. DallasHenry Jackson Ellicott1893
Millard FillmoreRobert Cushing1895
William R. KingWilliam C. McCauslen1896
John C. BreckinridgeJames Paxton Voorhees1896
Hannibal HamlinFranklin Bachelder Simmons1889
Andrew JohnsonWilliam C. McCauslen1900
Schuyler ColfaxFrances Murphy Goodwin1897
Henry WilsonDaniel Chester French1885
William A. WheelerEdward Clark Potter1892
Chester A. ArthurAugustus Saint-Gaudens1891
Thomas A. HendricksUlric Stonewall Jackson Dunbar1890
Levi P. MortonFrank Edwin Elwell1891
Adlai E. StevensonFranklin Bachelder Simmons1894
Garret A. HobartFrank Edwin Elwell1901
Theodore RooseveltJames Earle Fraser1910
Charles W. FairbanksFranklin Bachelder Simmons1905
James S. ShermanBessie Onahotema Potter Vonnoh1911
Thomas R. MarshallMoses A. Wainer Dykaar1918
Calvin CoolidgeMoses A. Wainer Dykaar1927
Charles G. DawesJo Davidson1930
Charles CurtisMoses A. Wainer Dykaar1934
John N. GarnerJames Earle Fraser1943
Henry A. WallaceJo Davidson1947
Harry S. TrumanCharles Keck1947
Alben W. BarkleyKalervo Kallio1958
Richard M. NixonGualberto Rocchi1966
Lyndon B. JohnsonJimilu Mason1966
Hubert H. HumphreyWalker Kirtland Hancock1982
Spiro T. AgnewWilliam Frederick Behrends1995
Gerald R. FordWalker Kirtland Hancock1985
Nelson A. RockefellerJohn Calabro1987
Walter F. MondaleJudson R. Nelson1987
George H. W. BushWalker Kirtland Hancock1990
J. Danforth QuayleFrederick E. Hart2002
Albert A. Gore, Jr.Incomplete"In process"TBD
Richard B. CheneyWilliam Frederick Behrends2015
Joseph R. Biden, Jr.Incomplete"Not yet commissioned"TBD