<Ul> <Li> 1852 -- Henry Clay , long - serving Senator and Representative , Secretary of State , Speaker of the House , and three - time presidential candidate </Li> <Li> 1865 -- President Abraham Lincoln , assassinated in office </Li> <Li> 1868 -- Thaddeus Stevens , Representative from Pennsylvania </Li> <Li> 1874 -- Charles Sumner , Senator from Massachusetts </Li> <Li> 1875 -- Vice President Henry Wilson , served under Grant , died in office </Li> <Li> 1881 -- President James Garfield , assassinated in office </Li> <Li> 1886 -- John A. Logan , Senator from Illinois </Li> <Li> 1901 -- President William McKinley , assassinated while in office </Li> <Li> 1909 -- Pierre L'Enfant -- although he died in 1825 , his remains were disinterred ; he was honored by lying in state before reinterment at Arlington National Cemetery </Li> <Li> 1917 -- Admiral George Dewey , Admiral of the Navy </Li> <Li> 1921 -- The Unknown Soldier for World War I </Li> <Li> 1923 -- President Warren Harding , died in office </Li> <Li> 1930 -- President William Howard Taft , President 1909 -- 1913 , also Chief Justice 1921 -- 1930 </Li> <Li> 1948 -- General John J. Pershing , General of the Armies of the United States during World War I and after </Li> <Li> 1953 -- Robert A. Taft , U.S. Senator and Majority Leader </Li> <Li> 1958 -- The Unknown Soldiers for World War II and the Korean War </Li> <Li> 1963 -- President John F. Kennedy , assassinated in office </Li> <Li> 1964 -- General Douglas MacArthur , General of the Army </Li> <Li> 1964 -- President Herbert Hoover , President 1929 -- 1933 </Li> <Li> 1969 -- President Dwight Eisenhower , President 1953 -- 1961 , Supreme Allied Commander during World War II </Li> <Li> 1969 -- Everett Dirksen , Illinois Senator , Senate Minority Leader 1959 -- 1969 </Li> <Li> 1972 -- J. Edgar Hoover , Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) 1929 -- 1972 </Li> <Li> 1973 -- President Lyndon B. Johnson , President 1963 -- 1969 </Li> <Li> 1978 -- Hubert Humphrey , Vice President 1965 -- 1969 , Minnesota Senator , 1968 Democratic nominee for President of the United States </Li> <Li> 1984 -- The Unknown Soldier for the Vietnam War ( later identified as 1st . Lt. Michael J. Blassie ) </Li> <Li> 1989 -- Claude Pepper , long - serving Senator and Representative from Florida </Li> <Li> 2004 -- President Ronald Reagan , President 1981 -- 1989 </Li> <Li> 2006 -- President Gerald Ford , President 1974 -- 1977 </Li> <Li> 2012 -- Daniel Inouye , President pro tempore of the U.S. Senate , Senator from Hawaii , and recipient of the Medal of Honor </Li> <Li> 2018 -- John McCain , 2008 Republican nominee for President of the United States , Senator from Arizona , and recipient of the Silver Star . </Li> </Ul>
senators who have laid in state at capitol
Henry Clay Charles Sumner John A. Logan Robert A. Taft Everett Dirksen Hubert Humphrey Claude Pepper Daniel Inouye John McCain