Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum (March 25, 1867 – March 6, 1941) was an American artist

Painting

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 and sculptor

Sculpture

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 famous for creating the monumental president

President of the United States

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s' heads at Mount Rushmore, South Dakota, the famous carving on Stone Mountain

Stone Mountain

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 near Atlanta, as well as other public works of art.
The son of Mormon

Mormon

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 Danish immigrants, Gutzon Borglum was born in 1867 in St. Charles

St. Charles, Idaho

St. Charles is a city located near the northern end of Bear Lake, in Bear Lake County, Idaho, United States. The population was 156 at the 2000 census. Ranching and recreation are the major influences on the community. Its small population live in houses scattered through a number of blocks of...

, Idaho

Idaho

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. Borglum was a child of polygamy. His father, James Miller Borglum, had two wives when he lived in Idaho -- Borglum's mother and his mother's sister, his father's first, legal wife.