Text on Front of Monument:
Pennsylvania
Andrew Gregg
Curtin
Governor
1861 - 1867
From Wikipedia:
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"Andrew Gregg Curtin (April 22, 1817 – October 7, 1894) was a U.S. lawyer and politician. He served as the Governor of Pennsylvania during the Civil War.
Curtin was born in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania. His parents were Roland Curtin, Sr., a wealthy Irish-born iron manufacturer from County Clare, and Jane (Gregg) Curtin, the daughter of U.S. Senator Andrew Gregg. His father, with Miles Boggs, established the Eagle Ironworks at Curtin Village in 1810. He attended Bellefonte Academy and Dickinson College and the Dickinson School of Law and was employed as a lawyer. Curtin first entered politics in the 1840 election, where he campaigned for Whig presidential candidate William Henry Harrison. In 1855, Governor James Pollock appointed him as Superintendent of Public Schools.[2] With the collapse of the Whigs, Curtin switched to the newly-formed Republican Party and successfully ran for governor of Pennsylvania in 1860. Curtin won re-election to the office in 1863. In the 1860 presidential election, Curtin helped Abraham Lincoln win the Republican nomination.
Curtin was a strong supporter of President Lincoln's policies in the Civil War, and Curtin committed Pennsylvania to the war effort. Curtin organized the Pennsylvania Reserves into combat units, and oversaw the construction of the first Union military camp for training militia. It opened in an agricultural school nearby Harrisburg as Camp Curtin on April 18, 1861, and more than 300 000 men were drilled there during 4 years. In the years that followed, Curtin became a close friend and confidant of Abraham Lincoln, visiting the White House several times in order to converse about the status of the war effort."
From the Smithsonian Outdoor Sculpture Site:
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"SCULPTOR:
McKenzie
SUBJECT:
Curtin, Andrew Gregg
MEDIUM:
Bust: bronze; Column: grey granite
TYPE:
Sculptures-Outdoor Sculpture
Sculptures
OWNER/LOCATION:
Administered by United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Washington District of Columbia
Administered by Vicksburg National Military Park 3201 Clay Street, Box 349 Vicksburg Mississippi 39180
Located Vicksburg National Military Park Grant Circle at Pennsylvania Memorial Vicksburg Mississippi
DATE:
Dedicated 1930
TOPIC:
History--United States--Civil War
Portrait male--Full length
Occupation--Political--Governor
CONTROL NUMBER:
IAS MS000281
NOTES:
Save Outdoor Sculpture, Mississippi survey, 1993
National Park Service, American Monuments and Outdoor Sculpture Database, MS7042, 1989
SUMMARY:
A bust of Pennsylvania Governor Andrew Gregg Curtin wearing an open, lapelled jacket, a vest, and a bow tie. The bust is mounted on top of tall column with an inscribed front and a wreath-like decoration around the top
DATA SOURCE:
Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums"