Death
Still in office, Borah died in his sleep at his home in Washington, D.C., on January 19, 1940 of a cerebral hemorrhage at age 74. His state funeral at the U.S. Capitol was held in the Senate chamber on Monday, January 22. A second state funeral in Idaho was held three days later at the Idaho State Capitol in Boise, where Borah's casket lay in state beneath the rotunda for six hours prior to the funeral at three o'clock. An estimated 23,000 passed by the bier or attended the funeral service, nearly equal to Boise's population (26,130) in 1940. He is buried in Morris Hill Cemetery in Boise.
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