Statue of Claude D. Pepper (The Mildred and Claude Pepper Bayfront Park in Miami)
Claude Denson Pepper (1900-1989), University of Alabama (1921), Harvard Law School (1924), World War I, Represented Florida in the U.S. Senate (1936-1951), Sponsor of the Lend-Lease Act (1941), Represented Miami in the U.S. House of Representatives (1963-1989), Rules Committee Chairman (1983-1989), Time Magazine cover story (May 2, 1938 and April 25, 1983), Presidential Medal of Freedom (1989), the 26th American in United States history to Lay in State in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol (1989), U.S. Postal Service Distinguished Americans series postage stamp (2000).