Statue of Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke is a bronze, full-length statue of British statesman, author, orator, political theorist, and philosopher Edmund Burke, created by British artist James Havard Thomas. The statue in Washington, D.C., is a cast of the original in Bristol, England. In Washington, it stands in Burke Park at the intersection of 11th Street, L Street, and Massachusetts Avenue NW, on the southern border of the Shaw neighborhood. The statue was a gift from Charles Wakefield, 1st Viscount Wakefield, on behalf of the Sulgrave Institution, an organization that promoted United Kingdom–United States relations by exchanging statues and busts between the two countries.

Burke was an influential philosopher and intellectual. After working as a private secretary for Prime Minister Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, Burke was elected to the House of Commons, where he would often give powerful…

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