St. Paul, Minnesota: Humphrey the Happy Warrior

Hubert Humphrey was Vice President under Lyndon Johnson, then lost the presidential election of 1968 to Richard Nixon. He was arguably the most powerful politician to ever come out of Minnesota, so it's surprising that there's never been a statue of him in the state capital of St. Paul -- especially since he's been dead since 1978, and St. Paul's rival city, Minneapolis, has had their own Humphrey statue since 1989. Now, however, St. Paul no longer has to hang its civic head in shame; it has "The Happy Warrior," a bronze Humphrey unveiled in August 2012 by both former President Bill Clinton and former Vice President Walter Mondale. The statue is heroic size, seven feet tall, while the one in Minneapolis is only life size, so there.