Rep. Kathy Castor wants a Confederate general to be removed from Statuary Hall at the U.S. Capitol, saying there are better representatives of the state of Florida.
Castor is calling for a new statue to replace Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith, which has been in the hall since 1922.
Castor, D-Tampa, noted that Kirby was born in St. Augustine but ``did not spend much time in Florida.'' After the Civil War, he became a professor at the University of the South in Tennessee.
The Tampa Bay Times (http://bit.ly/1Nih7Eu) reports that the other statue is of John Gorrie, the Apalachicola physician who in the 1840s pioneered ice manufacturing and air conditioning. Each state gets two statues.
Castor says she's working with historian Doris Weatherford and other Floridians on a replacement.
