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After being in storage for more than five years, the statue of Albert Pike, a brigadier general and respected figure freemasonsreturned Saturday to Judiciary Square, just a few blocks from the U.S. Capitol, WTOP News Informed.
Pike’s bronze statue was the only outdoor statue of a Confederate military leader in the nation’s capital. He was thrown to the ground with ropes and chains and set on fire in June 2020, as his death sparked nationwide protests. FloydA 46-year-old black man was killed by a white police officer in Minneapolis, derek chauvinKneeled on his neck.
Confederate statues were taken down across the country during similar protests, while several military bases named for Confederate leaders were renamed.
The restoration of the statue “is consistent with federal responsibilities under the Historic Preservation Act, as well as recent executive orders to beautify the nation’s capital and restore pre-existing statues,” according to the National Park Service. Said Announced withdrawal in August.
Two executive orders signed by Trump earlier this year prompted the statue’s return, including “restoring truth and sanity in American history.”
In this executive order, Trump ordered Interior Secretary Doug Burgum to determine whether, since January 2020, public statues and other monuments “have been removed or altered to perpetuate a false reconstruction of American history, inappropriately diminish the value of certain historical events or figures, or incorporate any other inappropriate partisan ideology,” and to restore these statues appropriately. Take action for.
While Pike served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War, he was best known for his decades-long tenure as a senior leader of the Freemasons. In 1901, the Masons lobbied Congress for the right to erect the statue on National Park Service land – and asked that Pike be depicted in civilian attire, not military.
The statue specifically honors Pike’s more than 30 years as Sovereign Grand Commander of the Ancient and Accepted Rite of Scottish Freemasonry.
Still, Pike led a regiment for the Confederacy during the Civil War, and his statue has long been a sore subject. The Park Service writes on its webpage that the statue “has met with strong opposition since its first planning.”
The DC Council called for the statue to be removed in 1992. In 2017, Washington, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser finally made a deal to remove it, although the removal occurred only after it was demolished.
The statue is located at the corner of 3rd and D Streets NW in a park near the DC Police Department headquarters.
As of Sunday, the statue and two John Deere cherry pickers were surrounded by a chain link fence, according to WTOP.
With reporting from the Associated Press.