United States Capitol rotunda

==Lying in state and honor==
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 | caption1 = [[Thaddeus Stevens]] lying in state on August 13, 1868. The plaster statue of [[Abraham Lincoln]] behind the casket is credited to [[Henry Jackson Ellicott]].
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{{further information|State funerals in the United States}}

The main difference between lying in state and lying in honor is whether the person was an elected official or military officer versus being a private citizen. The designated guard of honor that keeps watch over the casket also differs. When a person lies in state, a guard of honor from the [[United States Armed Forces]] watches over the casket; when a person lies in honor, the [[United States Capitol Police]] watches as a civilian guard of honor over the casket.

===Lain in state===
Government officials and military officers to have [[Lying in state#Lain in state|lain in state]] in the Capitol rotunda are as follows:<ref name="aoc.gov">{{Cite web |url=http://www.aoc.gov/cc/capitol/lain_in_state.cfm |title="Those Who Have Lain in State" The Architect of the Capitol |access-date=November 17, 2011 |archive-date=August 17, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120817130231/http://www.aoc.gov/cc/capitol/lain_in_state.cfm |url-status=live }}</ref>

* [[Henry Clay]] (July 1, 1852)
* [[Abraham Lincoln]] (April 19–21, 1865)
* [[Thaddeus Stevens]] (August 13–14, 1868)
* [[Charles Sumner]] (March 13, 1874)
* [[Henry Wilson]] (November 25–26, 1875)
* [[James A. Garfield]] (September 21–23, 1881)
* [[John A. Logan|John Alexander Logan]] (December 30–31, 1886)
* [[William McKinley]] (September 17, 1901)
* [[Pierre Charles L'Enfant]] (April 28, 1909)
* [[George Dewey]] (January 20, 1917)
* [[Tomb of the Unknown Soldier (Arlington)|Unknown Soldier]] of [[World War I]] (November 9–11, 1921)
* [[Warren G. Harding]] (August 8, 1923)
* [[William Howard Taft]] (March 11, 1930)
* [[John J. Pershing|John Joseph Pershing]] (July 18–19, 1948)
* [[Robert A. Taft|Robert Alphonso Taft]] (August 2–3, 1953)
* [[Tomb of the Unknown Soldier (Arlington)|Unknown Soldiers]] of [[World War II]] and the [[Korean War]] (May 28–30, 1958)
* [[John F. Kennedy]] (November 24–25, 1963)
* [[Douglas MacArthur]] (April 8–9, 1964)
* [[Herbert Hoover]] (October 23–25, 1964)
* [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] (March 30–31, 1969)
* [[Everett Dirksen|Everett McKinley Dirksen]] (September 9–10, 1969)
* [[J. Edgar Hoover]] (May 3–4, 1972)
* [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] (January 24–25, 1973)
* [[Hubert Humphrey]] (January 14–15, 1978)
* [[Tomb of the Unknown Soldier (Arlington)|Unknown Soldier]] of the [[Vietnam War]], later identified as [[Michael Blassie]] (May 25–28, 1984)
* [[Claude Pepper|Claude Denson Pepper]] (June 1–2, 1989)
* [[Ronald Reagan]] (June 9–11, 2004)
* [[Gerald Ford]] (December 30, 2006&nbsp;– January 2, 2007)
* [[Daniel Inouye|Daniel Ken Inouye]] (December 20, 2012)
* [[John McCain]] (August 31, 2018)
* [[George H. W. Bush]] (December 3–5, 2018)
* [[John Lewis]] (July 27–28, 2020)
* [[Bob Dole]] (December 9, 2021)<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-12-06|title=Bob Dole to lie in state at Capitol as nation honors senator|url=https://apnews.com/article/bob-dole-business-bill-clinton-veterans-foreign-policy-2fdfe82de4246e1b08aa96c283099bc7|access-date=2021-12-06|website=Associated Press|language=en}}</ref>
* [[Harry Reid]] (January 12, 2022)<ref>{{Cite web|title=Sen. Harry Reid to lie in state in U.S. Capitol Rotunda|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/late-sen-harry-reid-lie-state-us-capitol-rotunda-rcna10663|access-date=2022-01-05|website=NBC News|language=en}}</ref>

[[Ruth Bader Ginsburg]], [[Elijah Cummings]] and [[Don Young]] have lain in state on the grounds of the [[United States Capitol]] inside of [[National Statuary Hall]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Individuals Who Have Lain in State or in Honor {{!}} US House of Representatives: History, Art & Archives|url=https://history.house.gov/Institution/Lie-In-State/Lie-In-State/|access-date=2022-01-05|website=history.house.gov|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Marcos |first=Christina |date=2022-03-21 |title=Rep. Don Young to lie in state at the Capitol next week |work=[[The Hill (newspaper)|The Hill]] |url=https://thehill.com/homenews/house/599054-rep-don-young-to-lie-in-state-at-the-capitol-next-week |accessdate=2022-03-21}}</ref>

===Lain in honor===
Private citizens to have [[Lying in state#Lain in honor|lain in honor]] in the United States Capitol Rotunda are as follows:<ref name="aoc.gov"/>
* [[Jacob Chestnut]] and [[John Gibson (police officer)|John Gibson]] (July 28, 1998)
* [[Rosa Parks]] (October 30–31, 2005)
* [[Billy Graham]] (February 28 – March 1, 2018)
* [[Death of Brian Sicknick|Brian Sicknick]] (February 2–3, 2021)<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55866716|title = Brian Sicknick: Officer killed in Capitol riot to lie in honour|work = BBC News|date = January 30, 2021}}</ref>
* [[Billy Evans (police officer) |William Evans]] (April 13, 2021)<ref>{{Cite web|date=April 6, 2021|title=Capitol police officer to lie in honor at rotunda April 13|url=https://apnews.com/article/capitol-officer-killed-william-evans-e027495c30c3a675b6386b23e6e6894d|access-date=April 6, 2021|website=Associated Press}}</ref>
* [[Hershel W. Williams]] (July 14, 2022)<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |title=Hershel 'Woody' Williams, WWII Medal of Honor recipient, lies in honor at US Capitol |url=https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/hershel-woody-williams-wwii-medal-honor-recipient-lies/story?id=86817026 |access-date=2022-07-14 |website=ABC News |language=en}}</ref>

Other notable individuals, several of them being the [[Chief Justice of the United States|chief justice of the United States]], have lain in state in the [[United States Supreme Court Building]] while other individuals such as [[Ron Brown (U.S. Secretary of Commerce)|Ronald H. Brown]], have lain in state in the [[Herbert C. Hoover Building]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.aoc.gov/cc/capitol/catafalque.cfm |title="The Catafalque" The Architect of the Capitol |access-date=November 17, 2011 |archive-date=November 10, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111110193542/http://aoc.gov/cc/capitol/catafalque.cfm |url-status=live }}</ref>