 These include likenesses of President Stephen Allen Benson, Vice President Beverly Page Yates, senate chaplain Reverend Philip Coker, a number of senators, as well as the secretary, clerk, and sergeant at arms of the senate.The items placed in these portraits around Washington's portraits all held symbolic value for the representation of the Liberian politicians from the papers found on desks in the foreground to the expensive material of the desks themselves.These were all meant to boost the public's view of the legitimacy of the new Liberian government.