× Each state honors two residents with statues in the U.S. Capitol. Washington will replace pioneer Marcus Whitman’s. By Laurel Demkovich, The Spokesman-Review Published: April 19, 2021, 6:00am Share: In this photo taken Thursday, April 21, 2016, a statue of Marcus Whitman stands on city property just outside the Whitman College campus, in Walla Walla, Wash. Whitman College, a private, liberal arts school, has dumped its long-time mascot. Whitman teams will no longer be called the Missionaries, which was a reference Marcus and Narcissa Whitman, missionaries who came to the Walla Walla Valley in 1836 and were massacred a decade later. (Tom Skeen/Walla Walla Union-Bulletin via AP)