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 Abram Garfield
September 21-23, 1881
John Alexander Logan
December 30-31, 1886
William McKinley, Jr.
September 17, 1901
Pierre Charles L’Enfant
(re-interment) April 28, 1909
George Dewey
January 20, 1917
Unknown Soldier of World War I
November 9-11, 1921
Warren Gamaliel 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. Chosen to honor and perpetuate the memory of the heroes who gave their lives while serving overseas in the Armed Forces of the United States during World War II and the Korean War, and whose identities were unknown.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
November 24-25, 1963
Douglas MacArthur
April 8-9, 1964
Herbert Clark Hoover
October 23-25, 1964
Dwight David Eisenhower
March 30-31, 1969
Everett McKinley Dirksen
September 9-10, 1969
J. Edgar Hoover
May 3-4, 1972
Lyndon Baines Johnson
January 24-25, 1973
Hubert Horatio Humphrey
January 14-15, 1978
Unknown Soldier of the Vietnam Era
May 25-28, 1984
The Unknown Soldier event at Arlington National was fabulous recently. “Known only to God” the tomb says.
Claude Denson Pepper
June 1-2, 1989
Jacob Joseph Chestnut and John Michael Gibson
July 28, 1998
Ronald Wilson Reagan
June 9-11, 2004
The lines for Reagan were so very long. People waited and waited and waited to get in. I took gazillions of photos and photographed the caisson as it went by the Capitol. I photographed the backwards boot in the stirrup and the many bands that played.
Rosa Parks
October 30-31, 2005
I did not go to the Rotunda, but I saw her casket and caisson in Montgomery, Al.
Gerald R. Ford, Jr.
December 30, 2006-January 2, 2007.
I was here for this one. It so happened that I had my ladder with me (photographers carry ladders to get above the crowds). I had to carry my ladder into the Rotunda because they did not have a place to lay it.