Samuel Kirkwood is a bronze statue created by Vinnie Ream and placed in the National Statuary Hall Collection in the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C., one of the two statues there from Iowa.

Despite the fact that Kirkwood had been one of the Congressmen who had voted against awarding the Lincoln statue to Ream, she set about getting and succeeded in garnering the opportunity to do it.

[2] On April 5, 1906 the Iowa General Assembly voted to award the statue to Ream, along with $5,000 for the casting in bronze of her model.

[3] Because she was not up to the physical demands of the task, Ream's husband Richard, an engineer, devised a special “boatswain’s chair” that allowed her to raise and lower herself in a seated position while working on the statue.

The plaster that Ream had made for the Washington, D.C., statue was still in her studio, though she had died a decade earlier.