# Who should be the fifth face on Mount Rushmore?

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

*By YPB Team · Published August 11, 2026 · https://youpick.best/ranking/who-should-be-the-fifth-face-on-mount-rushmore*

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## Current results (0 votes)

1. **Benjamin Franklin**
   The Founder with the widest reach and no presidency, which is exactly why he is not up there.
2. **Martin Luther King Jr.**
   The most frequently named candidate, and the only one with a monument of his own on the Mall.
3. **Franklin D. Roosevelt**
   Four terms, the New Deal and the Second World War.
4. **Dwight D. Eisenhower**
   Commanded the Normandy landings, then built the interstate highway system.
5. **Alexander Hamilton**
   Designed the financial machinery the country still runs on.
6. **Harriet Tubman**
   The Underground Railroad's most effective conductor.
7. **John Adams**
   Pushed Congress into declaring independence and served as the second President.
8. **Frederick Douglass**
   The abolitionist writer and orator who forced the country to hear itself.
9. **Neil Armstrong**
   The first human footprint on another world was an American one.
10. **Susan B. Anthony**
   Spent fifty years campaigning for a vote she never got to cast legally.
11. **James Madison**
   Drafted the Constitution and the Bill of Rights that Rushmore's four swore to.
12. **Mark Twain**
   Gave the country its literary voice and its sharpest self-criticism.
13. **Amelia Earhart**
   Flew the Atlantic solo and disappeared into the century's most enduring mystery.
14. **Sacagawea**
   Interpreted and guided across the continent the expedition that mapped it.

Tags: usa, presidents