I was reading that former President Ford is going to buried at Capitol Rotunda. The article also mentioned 10 other presidents were honorably buried there, who are they?
2006-12-28 05:42:31 · 5 answers · asked by cutelil_bubble21 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
No. President Ford is going to lie in STATE in the Rotunda. He will be buried in Grand Rapids, Michigan. I believe on the presidential library grounds.
Here is more info on those who have lain in state:
http://www.aoc.gov/cc/capitol/lain_in_state.cfm
2006-12-28 05:44:57 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
He will be laying in state at the rotunda. No one is buried there. Heads of state are taken there so people can go and pay their final respects. President Ford will be buried at the site of his library in Grand Rapids Michigan.
2006-12-28 13:45:54 · answer #2 · answered by tallerfella 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
As the other answers have stated, no president is buried or will be buried at the Capitol, although there are two individuals buried on the capital grounds. But I thought I would answer the question you asked and list the names, positions in government, and year of their death of those who have lain in state in the rotunda of the Capitol.
In order of their appearance in the rotunda, they are:
Henry Clay -- Speaker of the House, Secretary of State -- 1852
Abraham Lincoln -- President, US Representative -- 1865
Thaddeus Stevens -- US Representative -- 1868
Charles Sumner -- US Senator -- 1874
Henry Wilson -- US Senator -- 1875
James Garfield -- President, US Representative -- 1881
John Alexander Logan -- US Senator, US Representative -- 1886
William McKinley -- President, Governor of Ohio, US Representative -- 1901
Piere Charles L'Enfant -- Planner of Washington, DC -- L'Enfant died in 1825 and was buried in Maryland. His remains were transferred to Arlington National Cemetary in 1909, which is when he laid in state in the Capitol.
George Dewey -- US Navy Admiral -- 1917
Unknown Soldier of Worl War I -- 1921
Warren Harding -- President, US Senator -- 1923
William Howard Taft -- Chief Justice of the US, President -- 1930
John Pershing -- US Army General -- 1948
Robert Taft -- US Representative -- 1953
Unknown Soldiers of World War II and the Korean War -- 1958
John F. Kennedy -- President, US Senator -- 1963
Douglas MacArthur -- US Army Chief of Staff -- 1964
Herbert Hoover -- President -- 1964
Dwight Eisenhower -- US Army General, President -- 1969
Everett Dirksen -- US Senator, US Representative -- 1969
J. Edgar Hoover -- First Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation -- 1972
Lyndon Baynes Johnson -- President, Vice President, US Senator, US Representative -- 1973
Hubert H. Humphrey -- Vice President, US Senator -- 1978
Unknown Soldier of the Vietnam Era -- 1984
Claude Denson Pepper -- US Senator, US Representative -- 1989
Jacob Joseph Chestnut and John Michael Gibson -- US Captial Police Officers killed in the line of duty, buried on the Captiol Grounds. -- 1998
Ronal Reagan -- President, Governor of California -- 2004
Rosa Parks -- Civil Rights Activist, American Icon -- 2005
2006-12-28 14:23:27 · answer #3 · answered by JoeH 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He is lying in state. I have never heard of anyone being buried in the Rotunda. There is a national cemetery at Arlington, Va.
2006-12-28 13:46:11 · answer #4 · answered by Preacher 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
None
He is only being viewed there.
Being buried in grand rapids Mich
2006-12-28 13:45:25 · answer #5 · answered by Yahoo Answer Rat 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋