United States Capitol rotunda Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===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 19β21, 1865) * [[Thaddeus Stevens]] (August 13β14, 1868) * [[Charles Sumner]] (March 13, 1874) * [[Henry Wilson]] (November 25β26, 1875) * [[James A. Garfield]] (September 21β23, 1881) * [[John A. Logan|John Alexander Logan]] (December 30β31, 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 9β11, 1921) * [[Warren G. Harding]] (August 8, 1923) * [[William Howard Taft]] (March 11, 1930) * [[John J. Pershing|John Joseph Pershing]] (July 18β19, 1948) * [[Robert A. Taft|Robert Alphonso Taft]] (August 2β3, 1953) * [[Tomb of the Unknown Soldier (Arlington)|Unknown Soldiers]] of [[World War II]] and the [[Korean War]] (May 28β30, 1958) * [[John F. Kennedy]] (November 24β25, 1963) * [[Douglas MacArthur]] (April 8β9, 1964) * [[Herbert Hoover]] (October 23β25, 1964) * [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] (March 30β31, 1969) * [[Everett Dirksen|Everett McKinley Dirksen]] (September 9β10, 1969) * [[J. Edgar Hoover]] (May 3β4, 1972) * [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] (January 24β25, 1973) * [[Hubert Humphrey]] (January 14β15, 1978) * [[Tomb of the Unknown Soldier (Arlington)|Unknown Soldier]] of the [[Vietnam War]], later identified as [[Michael Blassie]] (May 25β28, 1984) * [[Claude Pepper|Claude Denson Pepper]] (June 1β2, 1989) * [[Ronald Reagan]] (June 9β11, 2004) * [[Gerald Ford]] (December 30, 2006 β January 2, 2007) * [[Daniel Inouye|Daniel Ken Inouye]] (December 20, 2012) * [[John McCain]] (August 31, 2018) * [[George H. W. Bush]] (December 3β5, 2018) * [[John Lewis]] (July 27β28, 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> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page