In 1852 this Southern senator & orator became the first American to lie in state in the U.S. Capitol
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Lying in State | Architect of the Capitol | United States Capitol  The Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol has been considered the most suitable place for ... was the first congressman to represent Hawaii when it became a state in 1959. ... Chosen to honor the unknown Americans who lost their lives while serving in the .... Senator from Kentucky intermittently for 18 years between 1806 and 1852.
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Lying in state - Wikipedia  The process of lying in state at the Capitol is as follows. ... 1852  Henry Clay, long-serving Senator and Representative, Secretary of ... Parks became the second African-American and the first woman to lie in...
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Individuals Who Have Lain in State or in Honor | US House of ...  Since Henry Clay in 1852, the U.S. Capitol Rotunda has been used as a place to ... been military officers or elected American officials, including 11 U.S. Presidents. ... of Honor, Daniel Inouye was the 12th Senator to lie in state in the U.S. Capitol. ... disobedience in 1955 galvanized the U.S. civil rights movement, was the first...
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Henry Clay - U.S. Representative - Biography.com  Apr 2, 2014 ... Henry Clay was a 19th century Congressman and secretary of state who ... U.S. Representative (17771852) ... before becoming a Kentucky senator and then speaker of the House of ... His link to American history came at an early age. .... Clay was laid in state in the Capitol rotunda, the first person ever to...
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Henry Clay - Wikipedia  Henry Clay, Sr. (April 12, 1777  June 29, 1852) was an American lawyer and planter, politician, and skilled orator who represented Kentucky in both the United States Senate ... He continued to advocate his American System, and become a leader of the .... Biddle, Clay submitted the Supreme Court's first amicus curiae.
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U.S. Senate: Classic Senate Speeches: Robert Y. Hayne  Previously, he had served as speaker of the South Carolina house of ... He would greatly expand his oratorical fame during his nearly ten years in the Senate. ... to his allies that when the time. came for his response, he would "grind [Hayne] as ... from Robert C. Byrd, The Senate, 1789-1989: Classic Speeches, 1830-1993.
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A Biography of John Caldwell Calhoun (1782-1850) < Biographies ...  March 18, 1782 in South Carolina, Calhoun was born, and educated at Yale College ... South, John C. Calhoun became the first vice president to resign. ... he asserted nullification of federal laws, and in 1832 the South Carolina legislature did just that. The next year in the Senate Calhoun and Daniel Webster opposed each...
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Daniel Webster delivers famous Senate speech, Jan. 26, 1830 ...  Jan 26, 2015 ... On this day in 1830, Daniel Webster of Massachusetts rose in the ... to proclaim, Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable!
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Coretta Scott King Lies In State - CBS News  Feb 4, 2006 ... First Woman, Black Person To Receive Tribute At Georgia State ... Georgia Capitol to lie in honor in the Rotunda in Atlanta Saturday, ... to Georgia's state Capitol, where she became the first woman and first ... Church, where her husband preached in the years before his death. ... 2006 The Associated Press.
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On This Day: February 21, 1885 - The New York Times  "First in War, First in Peace, First in the Hearts of His Countrymen." ... and first president of the United States, is honored by monuments and place names across the country. ... ceremony for the Washington Monument was held on July 4, 1848. Speaker of the House Robert Winthrop laid the cornerstone and delivered the...
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1861-1865: A Devastating Civil War - US Capitol Visitor Center  First arriving on April 18, 1861, Union troops occupied the Rotunda and ... Congress passed a bill  signed into law on March 3, 1863  supporting the ... During the war, the House formally expelled three border-state representatives for taking up arms .... War hero Nathaniel Greene of Rhode Island became the first to arrive.
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Abraham Lincoln Speeches | HistoryNet  A house divided against itself cannot stand. ... During his 1858 campaign to become U.S. senator for Illinois, Lincoln gained national attention in a ... helped him to win the 1860 Republican nomination for President of the United States. ... First, however, he told the band outside to play "Dixie," which he said, "Our adversaries...
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Abraham Lincoln Pre-Presidential Political Timeline  The following timeline provides a brief glimpse of his political career before the ... he ran for the U.S. Senate, making a name for himself in those famous debates. By 1860 he became the first Republican to win a presidential election. ... Wins election to first term in Illinois House of Representatives ... DECEMBER 22, 1847
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1865-1877: Rebuilding the Country - US Capitol Visitor Center  The amendment passed the Senate on April 8, 1864, and the House on ... The Civil Rights Bill granted citizenship and civil rights to all male persons in the United ... President Andrew Johnson vetoed the bill, but Congress overrode the veto  the ... to take his oath of office and become the first African American in Congress.
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Master of the Senate by Robert A. Caro - Penguin Random House  The Desks of the Senate The Chamber of the United States Senate was a long, .... speech that January of 1830, the South, through the South Carolina Senator ... And then two days later, on the 26th, Senator Webster of Massachusetts, with his dark, ... I hope to see spread all over it, blazoned in letters of light, and proudly...
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James K. Polk Tomb  Nashville, Tennessee | Atlas Obscura  Discover James K. Polk Tomb in Nashville, Tennessee: The grave of America's 11th president is not ... subsequently disinterred and moved to the grounds of the Tennessee State Capitol on September 19, 1893. ... 300 feet away from the state's statue of President Andrew Jackson, who had mentored Polk in his early career.
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Lying in State | Architect of the Capitol | United States Capitol  (Last updated 2015.) ... He was Vice President of the United States from December 6, 1973, to August 9, 1974, ... Officer Chestnut and Detective Gibson were the first persons whose remains lay in honor in the Rotunda. ... January 24-25, 1973.
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Rosa Parks - Wikipedia  Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (February 4, 1913  October 24, 2005) was an African American ..... She was the first woman and the second black person to lie in state in the Capitol. ... The chapel was renamed the Rosa L. Parks Freedom Chapel in her honor. Parks had ..... October 30, 2005  October 31, 2005, Succeeded by
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Lying in state - Wikipedia  For most federal officeholders, lying in state is the rare honor granted by the ... Since then, the honor has been extended to thirty-one people, including ... and the first woman to lie in honor in the Capitol Rotunda.
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Andrew Johnson | CourseNotes  He learned the trade but was so unhappy at his job that he refused to serve ... In 1857 Johnson became a United States senator from Tennessee. ... (Such a bill was not passed until 1862, after the secession of the slave states.) ... he was the only Southern senator who did not resign and side with his state when it seceded.
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Office of the Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives Art & History ...  Today, the room is still used for ceremonies honoring foreign dignitaries and events ... the tradition of escorting the successor to the Capitol for their inauguration. ... 1824, Lafayette became the first foreign dignitary to address a joint meeting of the ... to a joint session of Congress in the old Hall when Lafayette died in 1834.