Idaho-born sculptor Gutzon Borglum (1867-1941), with the help of his son, carved the faces on Mount Rushmore from 1927 to 1941.
The faces are those of Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, and George Washington.
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