Posted 12:40 p.m. Thurs., July 2: If Gov. Jay Nixon is successful, the statue of former U.S. Rep. Francis Preston Blair (right) will soon be ousted from the U.S. Capitol to make way for the bust of the Show-Me State's only president, Harry S Truman. On the eve of the July 4th holiday, Nixon formally made the requestto remove the visage of Blair, aCivil War general and unsuccessful vice presidential hopeful, so Give 'Em Hell Harry gets his deserved place in the Washington spotlight. Each state is allowed only two statues in the Capitol's Statuary Hall. Not under threat: the bust of former Sen. Thomas Hart Benton.

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