10 Famous People to Rest in US Capitol Rotunda Before Billy Graham

The U.S. Capitol Rotunda, where the nation’s most distinguished citizens are paid tribute upon their deaths, is where Rev. Graham Billy will rest for two days next week.

The evangelical minister – a preacher to millions, a mentor to many and a spiritual confidant to U.S. presidents – died in North Carolina on Wednesday at the age of 99.

Graham’s body will be moved from Ashville to Charlotte via motorcade on Saturday and it will rest at the Billy Graham Library until Tuesday and then at the Capitol on Wednesday and Thursday, per CNN. His funeral and burial are back at the library on Friday.

Graham joins a long list of notable figures whose bodies have rested in the Capitol Rotunda, either to lie in state if they were elected U.S. officials and military officers or to lie in honor if not a member of government, per NPR.

Here are 10 famous people whose bodies have rested there:

1. Ronald Reagan, U.S. president, 2004

2. John F. Kennedy, U.S. president, 1963

3. Abraham Lincoln, U.S. president, 1865

4. Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. president, 1969 (other presidents include William Howard Taft, 1930; Herbert Hoover, 1964; Lyndon Johnson, 1973; Gerald Ford, 2007)

5. Unknown soldier of World War I, 1921 (and others from World War II and Korean War, 1958, and Vietnam era, 1984)

6. Douglas MacArthur, general during World War II, Korean War, 1964

7. Rosa Parks, civil rights pioneer, 2005

8. J. Edgar Hoover, first FBI director, 1972

9-10. U.S. Capitol Police killed on duty, Officer Jacob Chestnut and Detective John Gibson, 1998

Source: Office of the Historian and the Clerk of the House's Office of Art and Archives

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