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Johnny Cash Statue Coming to U.S. Capitol

Johnny Cash will be enshrined in the U.S. Capitol's Statuary Hall in September as part of Arkansas' contribution the collection of historic figures.

Cash will take his place in the National Statuary Hall Collection, where each U.S. state receives two statues to commemorate important figures from its history. Cash’s enshrinement will place him in good company alongside such historic figures as Ethan Allen, Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune (educator, civil rights activist and co-founder of the United Negro College Fund), Pulitzer Prize winner author Willa Cather, Amelia Earhart, inventor Thomas Alva Edison, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Andrew Jackson, Hellen Keller, astronaut John Swigert, Jr., George Washington and many others. With his signature rumbling baritone voice and songs of faith, murder, longing and love, Cash was a beloved country outlaw best known for such iconic tracks as “I Walk the Line,” “Ring of Fire,” “Folsom Prison Blues,” “Man in Black” and “Daddy Sang Bass,” and many others.

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