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| Benito Juárez |
"Traded" by the people of Mexico for a statue of Abraham Lincoln, Benito Juárez is part of the District's Statues of the Liberators series. It was authorized back on October 17, 1968, and presented to then President Lyndon B. Johnson to commemorate popular five-term Mexican President Juárez (who served simultaneously with Honest Abe.) The original (designed by Enrique Alciati) stands in Oaxaca, Mexico; while the bronze copy towers over the intersection of Virginia and New Hampshire Avenues, NW.
