WASHINGTON, D.C. (HawaiiNewsNow)
As Hawaii and the nation mourn the loss of Sen. Daniel Inouye, who passed away Monday at the age of 88, he is being memorialized with high honors that are reserved for presidents and eminent historical figures.
As the most senior member of the U.S. Senate and third in line to the presidency, one of his final tributes in the nation's capitol will be to lie in state in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda. Inouye, who was also a World War II veteran with the 442nd Regiment Combat Team, will be the 32nd person given that honor in 160 years.
Services for Sen. Daniel K. Inouye are as follows:
Thursday
Washington, D.C.
9:50 a.m. (4:50 HST) Casket arrives at U.S. Capitol Rotunda
10 a.m. (5 a.m. HST) Memorial service with remarks from Congressional Leadership
12:00 � 8:00 p.m. (7 a.m. � 3 p.m. HST) Public viewing, Sen. Inouye's body to lie in state in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda
Friday
Washington, D.C.
9:30 a.m. (4:30 a.m. HST) Sen. Inouye's casket escorted to Washington National Cathedral
10:30 a.m. (5:30 a.m. HST) Public memorial service at Washington National Cathedral
Saturday
Honolulu
5 p.m. � midnight (HST) Public viewing, Sen. Inouye's body to lie in state at the State Capitol
Sunday
Honolulu
10 a.m. (HST) Public memorial at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific at Punchbowl
Since 1852, only 31 people have been honored by lying in state in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda. The tribute has been bestowed upon eleven U.S. presidents including Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan. The following is a list of those who have lain in state:
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 A. Garfield
September 21-23, 1881
John A. 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 G. Harding
August 8, 1923
William Howard Taft
March 11, 1930
John Joseph Pershing
July 18-19, 1948
Robert A. Taft
August 2-3, 1953
Unknown Soldiers of World War II and the Korean War
May 28-30, 1958
John F. Kennedy
November 24-25, 1963
Douglas MacArthur
April 8-9, 1964
Herbert Clark Hoover
October 23-25, 1964
Dwight D. 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 H. Humphrey
January 14-15, 1978
Unknown Soldier of the Vietnam Conflict
May 25-28, 1984
Claude Denson Pepper
June 1-2, 1989
Jacob Joseph Chestnut and John Michael Gibson
July 28, 1998, lay in honor
Ronald Wilson Reagan
June 9-11, 2004
Rosa Parks
October 30-31, 2005, lay in honor
Gerald R. Ford, Jr.
December 30, 2006-January 2, 2007
More information from the Capitol can be found here.
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