WASHINGTON ― House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.)
on Thursday ordered the immediate removal of portraits in the U.S. Capitol of four previous House Speakers who served in the Confederacy.
“There is no room in the hallowed halls of Congress or in any place of honor for memorializing men who embody the violent bigo
try and grotesque racism of the Confederacy,” Pelosi said in a letter to the Clerk of the House of Representatives.
The four portraits are of former House Speakers Robert Hunter of Virginia, who served 1839-1841; Howell Cobb of Georgia, who served 1849-1851; James Orr of South Carolina, who served 1857-1859; and Charles Crisp of Georgia, who served 1891-1895.
But in a letter to the congressional committee with jurisdiction over the display of statues at the Capitol, she called for them to direct the Architect of the Capitol to “immediately” remove the 11 Confederate statues in the all HuffPost superfans!
