UT president reveals new spot for James Hogg statue on campus
The University of Texas will reinstall the statue of Gov. James Stephen Hogg between the Main Building and the Will C. Hogg Building later this month, university President Gregory L. Fenves said in a letter to the campus community on Thursday.
Shortly after neo-Nazis, the Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacists rallied in August 2017 to protest the removal of a statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville, Va., Hogg’s statue was pulled from the South Mall, along with statues of Lee and two other Confederate figures.
At the time, Fenves penned a letter to the community, saying statues of politician John Reagan, Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston and Lee would be removed and added to the collection at the Briscoe Center for American History. The monuments to members of the Confederacy, he wrote, “have become symbols of modern white supremacy and neo-Nazism.”
The statue of Hogg, who served as the state’s governor from 1891 through 1895, unlike the others, would be considered for another site, he said at the time.
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