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In 2017, in an effort to counter D'Alesandro's daughter Nancy Pelosi's efforts to remove statues of confederate figures from the halls of Congress, conservative commentators noted that in 1948, D'Alesandro dedicated the Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee Monument in his capacity as Mayor of Baltimore, along with the then-Governor of Maryland, William Preston Lane Jr. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_D%27Alesandro_Jr.#:~:text=In%202017%2C%20in%20an%20effort%20to%20counter%20D%27Alesandro%27s,about%20his%20father%20%22His%20whole%20life%20was%20politics.