Kenneth Douglas McKellar - Blountville, TN - Smithsonian Art Inventory Sculptures on Waymarking.com

Located at TriCities Regional Airport, previously known as McKellar Field.

Description: A standing portrait of Kenneth Douglas McKellar. McKellar wears a suit with vest, a bow tie, and glasses. His proper left hand is behind his back, while his proper right hand grasps the lapel of his jacket. His feet are shoulder width apart. The sculpture stands on a rectangular base.

Inscription: Edgar Bowlin - 58
(On front:) KENNETH D. McKELLAR
(On plaque, front of base:) Kenneth Douglas McKellar 1869-1957 US House of Representatives, 1911-1917 US Senate, 1917-1953 Friend and Advocate of Commercial Aviation signed

Like the current Senator Robert C. Byrd (D-WV), Senator McKellar was good about bringing the money to his home state. A favored tale follows:
In 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt asked Senator Kenneth McKellar, a Tennessean who was chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, to come down to the White House for a little discussion. The President asked Senator McKellar if he could hide $2 billion in the appropriations bill for a secret project to win World War II, and Senator McKellar replied to the President: "Mr. President, that will be no problem. I just have one question. Where in Tennessee do you want me to hide it?" Thus the beginning of Oak Ridge, TN.

TITLE: Kenneth Douglas McKellar ARTIST(S): Bowlin, Edgar, sculptor DATE: 1958 MEDIUM: Marble on concrete and stone base CONTROL NUMBER: IAS TN000170 Direct Link to the Individual Listing in the Smithsonian Art Inventory: [Web Link] PHYSICAL LOCATION: Tri-Cities Airport Blountville, Tennessee 37617 By short-term parking in front of terminal DIFFERENCES NOTED BETWEEN THE INVENTORY LISTING AND YOUR OBSERVATIONS AND RESEARCH: None

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