The Douglass statue, now on display at a D.C. government building in Judiciary Square.

At long last, the District will finally have some representation in another part of the U.S. Capitol. The House voted today to give final authorization to the transfer of D.C.’s statue of Frederick Douglass from a city government building to the Capitol, completing a process that started with the sculpture’s creation.

The District government installed the Douglass statue at 441 First Street NW in 2006, but for years, Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton has been pushing her colleagues to allow D.C. to be represented among Congress’ statue collection. There are 180 statues on display throughout the Capitol complex, though none are erected in commemoration of their figures’ service to the District of Columbia.

But that will finally change on June 19, when the Douglass statue is moved to Capitol Hill. Congress actually voted to approve the statue transfer last year, but it took another resolution adopted by the current Congress to finalize the move.

Douglass spent much of his adult life living in D.C., where he was instrumental in winning passage of the D.C. Emancipation Act of 1862. He was also an early advocate for District voting rights, writing often about the city’s “disenfranchised” residents.

“There is no better figure to represent our city than Frederick Douglass, who made the city his home and was deeply involved in D.C. government and in the civic affairs of the city ,” Norton said in a press release.

The statue, which was cast by the artist Steven Weitzman, will go on display in the Captiol’s Emancipation Hall on June 19.