It's not just the N.C. Democratic Party that honors Vance and Aycock.

The state of North Carolina and the federal government have also chosen to honor former Govs. Zebulon Baird Vance and Charles Brantley Aycock.

Statues of the two men are on display at the U.S. Capitol building.

The statue of Vance is in the National Statuary Hall, a sort of Hall of Fame for each of the 50 states that doubles as a "spin room" following the State of the Union. He stands alongside such notables as Ethan Allen, Sam Houston and Jefferson Davis.

The statue of Aycock is located in the Crypt, directly below the Capitol Rotunda and near the gift shop.

Vance was cast in 1916 by Gutzon Borglum; Aycock was cast by Charles Keck in 1932.

The Vance-Aycock Dinner, an annual fundraiser for state Democrats named for the two men, drew controversy last year when some officials protested the two men's records on civil rights.

Vance was governor during the Confederate era, while Aycock participated in the 1898 Wilmington coup.