United States Capitol Rotunda - Lying in State and Honor

Lying in State and Honor

Further information: State funerals in the United States

The main difference between lying in state and lying in honor is the designated guard of honor that keeps watch over the casket. When lying in state, a guard of honor from the United States Armed Forces watch over the casket; when lying in honor, the United States Capitol Police watches as a civilian guard of honor over the casket.

  • People to have lain in state in the Capitol rotunda are as follows:
    • 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 Alexander Logan (December 30–31, 1886)
    • William McKinley (September 17, 1901)
    • Pierre Charles L'Enfant (April 28, 1909)
    • George Dewey (January 20, 1917)
    • Unknown Soldier of World War I (November 9–11, 1921)
    • Warren Harding (August 8, 1923)
    • William Howard Taft (March 11, 1930)
    • John Joseph Pershing (July 18–19, 1948)
    • Robert Alphonso Taft (August 2–3, 1953)
    • 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 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)
    • Unknown Soldier of the Vietnam War, later identified as Michael J. Blassie (May 25–28, 1984)
    • Claude Denson Pepper (June 1–2, 1989)
    • Ronald Reagan (June 9–11, 2004)
    • Gerald Ford (December 30, 2006 – January 2, 2007)
    • Daniel Inouye (December 20, 2012)
  • People to have lain in honor in the United States Capitol Rotunda are as follows:
    • Jacob Chestnut and John Gibson (July 28, 1998)
    • Rosa Parks (October 30–31, 2005)

Other notable individuals, several of them being the Chief Justice of the United States, have lain in state in the United States Supreme Court Building while other individuals such as Ronald H. Brown, have lain in state in the Herbert C. Hoover Building.

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