Mount Rushmore - ameriacn presidents sculpture

Mount Rushmore National Memorial is a sculpture engraved into the granite face of Mount Rushmore near Keystone, South Dakota, in the United States. Sculpted by Gutzon Borglum and later on by his son Lincoln Borglum, Mount Rushmore features 60-foot sculpture of the heads of former United States presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln. The whole memorial covers 1,278.45 acres and is 5,725 feet above sea level. Borglum decisive the sculpture should have a further national focus, and chose the four presidents whose likenesses would be carved into the mountain.

After securing federal funding, building on the memorial began in 1927, and the presidents' faces were finished between 1934 and 1939. Upon Gutzon Borglum's death in March 1941, his son Lincoln Borglum took more construction. Though the primary concept called for each president to be depicted from head to waist, lack of funding enforced construction to end in October 1941. The U.S. National Park Service took control of the memorial in 1933, while it was still in construction, and control the memorial to the present day. It attracts around two million people annually.

Location	Pennington County, South Dakota, U.S.
Nearest city	Keystone, South Dakota
Area	1,278.45 acres
Established	March 3, 1925
Visitors	14,757,971

Winfield Scott - Great General of USA

Winfield Scott was a United States Army general, and unsuccessful presidential applicant of the Whig Party in 1852. Known as "Old Fuss and Feathers" and the "Grand Old Man of the Army," he serve on active duty as a general longer than any further man in American history and many historians rate him the ablest American commander of his time. Over the course of his forty seven year career, he commanded forces in the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War, the Black Hawk War, the Second Seminole War, and, in brief, the American Civil War, conceiving the Union strategy known as the Anaconda Plan that would be used to beat the Confederacy.

He served as superior General of the United States Army for twenty years, longer than any other holder of the office. A national hero after the Mexican American War, he served as military governor of Mexico City. Such was his stature that, in 1852, the United States Whig Party passed over its own incumbent President of the United States, Millard Fillmore, to suggest Scott in the United States presidential election. Scott lost to Democrat Franklin Pierce in the common election, but remained a popular national figure, receiving a brevet promotion in 1856 to the rank of lieutenant general, suitable the first American since George Washington to hold that rank.

Nickname	Old Fuss and Feathers, Grand Old Man of the Army
Date of Birth	June 13, 1786
Place of Birth	Dinwiddie County, Virginia
Service/branch	United States Army, Union Army
Rank	Brevet Lieutenant General
Commands held	United States Army
Other work	Lawyer, Military governor of Mexico City, Whig candidate for President of the United States
Place of Death	West Point, New York
Date of Death	May 29, 1866

James Buchanan

Born	April 23, 1791
Birth Place	Mercersburg, Pennsylvania
Political party	Democratic
Spouse(s)	None (Bachelor)
Occupation	Lawyer, Diplomat
Religion	Presbyterian
Died	June 1, 1868
Death Place	Lancaster, Pennsylvania

James Buchanan was served as the 15th President of the United States. A popular and knowledgeable state politician and very successful attorney prior to his presidency. Buchanan's efforts to preserve peace between the North and the South alienated both sides, and the Southern states confirmed their secession in the prologue to the American Civil War. Buchanan's view of record was that secession was illegal, but that leaving to war to stop it was also illegal. Buchanan, first and leading an attorney, was noted for his mantra, "I acknowledge no master but the law." By the time he left office, popular opinion had turned beside him, and the Democratic Party had divide in two. He had once aspired to a presidency that would grade in history with that of George Washington.

James Madison

Born	March 16, 1751
Birth Place	Port Conway, Virginia
Nationality	American
Political party	Democratic-Republican
Spouse(s)	Dolley Todd Madison
Occupation	Lawyer
Religion	Disputed
Died	June 28, 1836
Death Place	Montpelier, Virginia

James Madison was one of the American politician and political philosopher who served as the 4th President of the United States and is consider one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He was the principal author of the US establishment, and is often called the "Father of the Constitution”. The first president to have served in the United States Congress, he was a head in the 1st United States Congress, drafting many basic laws, and was answerable for the first ten amendments to the establishment and thus is also known as the "Father of the Bill of Rights". Madison worked closely with President George Washington to arrange the new federal government. He supported the making of the second National Bank, a strong military, and a high tariff to keep the new factories opened during the war.