the close of his administration, he retired to private life at Fruit Hill, where he died in 1879. Allen is buried at Grandview Cemetery, Chillicothe. Legacy Allen County, Kansas is named for William Allen. In 1887, Ohio donated a statue of Allen to the National Statuary Hall Collection, which was exhibited in the National Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol. The statue was sculpted by Charles H. Niehaus. In 2010, the Ohio Historical Society held a statewide poll on the suitability of Allen as a distinguished representative of the state. The poll found that many Ohioans objected to Allen. On August 26, the Ohio National Statuary Committee voted to replace Allen's statue with a statue of Ohio-born inventor Thomas Edison. The Ohio General Assembly agreed to replace the statue in part because "Allen’s pro-slavery position and outspoken criticism of President Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War make him a poor representative for Ohio in the U.S. Capitol." However, lack of funding for the Edison statue delayed replacement of the Allen statue. The Edison statue was completed in spring 2015, and was installed on September 20, 2016. The statue of Allen was relocated to the Ross County Heritage Center in Chillicothe. References External links National Statuary Hall Collection: William Allen at Architect of the Capitol 1803 births 1879 deaths Burials at Grandview Cemetery (Chillicothe, Ohio) Democratic Party governors of Ohio Politicians from Chillicothe, Ohio People of Ohio in the American Civil War Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Ohio Democratic Party United States senators from Ohio Jacksonian members of the United States House of Representatives from Ohio 19th-century American politicians People from Edenton, North Carolina Chairmen of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations Copperheads (politics)