Baltimore's Public Art Commission voted 6-0 to allow a city-owned parcel near the Maryland Science Center to become the permanent setting for an 8-foot-tall statue of the late Clarence H. Du Burns. The one-time high school locker room attendant rose through the ranks of city government and was mayor for 11 months in 1987.
The statue of Burns, which has already been fabricated, will be placed just off the Inner Harbor promenade, 800 feet south of the Schaefer statue. When Schaefer became governor of Maryland, City Council President Burns automatically succeeded him as mayor.
