Who should be the fifth face on Mount Rushmore?

There is room on that mountain for one more face, and everybody has a candidate.

1. 1
   Benjamin Franklin

   The Founder with the widest reach and no presidency, which is exactly why he is not up there.
2. 2
   Martin Luther King Jr.

   The most frequently named candidate, and the only one with a monument of his own on the Mall.
3. 3
   Franklin D. Roosevelt

   Four terms, the New Deal and the Second World War.
4. 4
   Dwight D. Eisenhower

   Commanded the Normandy landings, then built the interstate highway system.
5. 5
   Alexander Hamilton

   Designed the financial machinery the country still runs on.
6. 6
   Harriet Tubman

   The Underground Railroad's most effective conductor.
7. 7
   John Adams

   Pushed Congress into declaring independence and served as the second President.
8. 8
   Frederick Douglass

   The abolitionist writer and orator who forced the country to hear itself.
9. 9
   Neil Armstrong

   The first human footprint on another world was an American one.
10. 10
    Susan B. Anthony

    Spent fifty years campaigning for a vote she never got to cast legally.
11. 11
    James Madison

    Drafted the Constitution and the Bill of Rights that Rushmore's four swore to.
12. 12
    Mark Twain

    Gave the country its literary voice and its sharpest self-criticism.
13. 13
    Amelia Earhart

    Flew the Atlantic solo and disappeared into the century's most enduring mystery.
14. 14
    Sacagawea

    Interpreted and guided across the continent the expedition that mapped it.

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