Ronald Reagan statue (claimed largest)

Covington, Louisiana, United States

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A bronze statue of Ronald Reagan, smiling and saluting, stands at the Covington Trailhead, a terminus of the Tammany Trace in Covington, Louisiana. Funded by Patrick F. Taylor's foundation, it was placed in June 2008 and is reported to be the world's tallest Reagan statue.

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Approximate location · 30.476° N, 90.101° W

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Covington has no known link to the president it honours. According to The Advocate in 2025, Ronald Reagan never visited the city during his eight years in office, yet a bronze Reagan stands at the town's trailhead, smiling and saluting. It is there because of a friendship, according to The Advocate.

The Advocate reports that oilman and philanthropist Patrick F. Taylor set out to fund a Louisiana memorial after Reagan died in 2004, and that Taylor himself died in November 2004. His family's Patrick F. Taylor Foundation later agreed to pay for the statue. The choice of Covington followed the 2003 naming of a stretch of US 190 as Ronald Reagan Highway, the newspaper says. The plaque, Louisiana Life reported in 2014, says the statue was commissioned and donated by Taylor on 27 June 2008.

Sculptor Patrick Miller made the figure. The Advocate says it was completed in March 2007 for $110,000 and placed at the trailhead in June 2008. Miller told Louisiana Life that Hurricane Katrina interrupted his work and that the statue took over a year to complete.

Sizes differ by source. The Advocate gives 9 feet and 1,300 pounds, and a 2008 caption in the same article gives 9 feet 4 inches. Louisiana Life describes a nine-foot figure on a six-foot pedestal, while radio station KEEL in 2022 gave about 10 feet on a base of about six feet, roughly 16 feet in all. The Advocate calls it reportedly the world's tallest Reagan statue, two feet taller than those in the US Capitol Rotunda and Budapest.

The statue overlooks a small amphitheatre at the trailhead. Louisiana Life describes the park as home to art markets, farmers markets and outdoor concerts, and as a terminus of the 31-mile Tammany Trace.

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A bronze statue of Ronald Reagan on a pedestal at the Covington Trailhead park, a terminus of the 31-mile Tammany Trace. In 2025 The Advocate described it overlooking a small amphitheatre; Louisiana Life describes the park as a venue for markets and concerts.

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At the Covington Trailhead in downtown Covington, Louisiana, a public park at a terminus of the Tammany Trace. KEEL in 2022 placed it at the corner of North New Hampshire and East Lockwood streets.

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