Will a Frenchman represent the District in the U.S. Capitol’s National Statuary Hall? It looks like it.

According to an online chat with WTOP Political Reporter Mark Plotkin over at the Post, Pierre Charles L’Enfant, the man George Washington charged with designing the District, has been chosen as one of the city’s two statues for the famed hall in the U.S. Capitol. As we reported in April, the D.C. Commission on Arts and Humanities allowed residents to vote for two District notables to represent the city in Statuary Hall, including in the list of candidates such luminaries as Thurgood Marshall, Frederick Douglass and Duke Ellington. According to Plotkin, of the six finalists, L’Enfant is the least qualified to represent the District:

I personally felt that Walter Washington and Joe Rauh or John Hechinger would have been great selections. The other finalists were Charles Houston, Mary Church Terrell, Sterling Brown and Fredrick Douglas was also selected. To me Pierre L’Enfant is a federal foreign contractor. Yes, he did design the city, but he is not of the city.

What say you, D.C.? Should L’Enfant be given the spot? And before you comment, let this much be said — Marion Barry was never in the running.

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