Art & History

National Statuary Hall Collection

Massachusetts

Image of Massachusetts statue

John Winthrop, 1588–1649

Statesman

Winthrop hoped the “Puritan experiment” in America would “be as a Citty vpon a Hill.” A longtime governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, he built many of New England’s most enduring political traditions.

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