Donald Trump will be sworn in as president in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol on Monday, after the forecast bitter cold prompted planners to move the ceremony under the building's neoclassical dome for the first time in four decades.
Services honoring former President Jimmy Carter began Jan. 4. Here is when he is scheduled to lie in state in Washington, D.C.
The Capitol has a more expansive policy for lying in state. Congressman Henry Clay, in 1852, was the first to lie in the Capitol Rotunda. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover lay in the Capitol in 1972. Police officers killed in 1998 while protecting the Capitol also lay in state there. Sen. John McCain lay in state after his death earlier this year.
On Thursday, late President Carter is set to depart the U.S. Capitol at 9 a.m. and travel to the Washington National Cathedral for a ceremony at 9:30 a.m. followed by the National Funeral Services at 10 a.m. Then, Carter and his family will return to Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, where they will board back to Georgia.
Former President Jimmy Carter is lying in state in the Capitol Rotunda in Washington, DC, on Tuesday before a funeral service later this week. Follow for live news updates.
Former President Jimmy Carter will lie in state at the US Capitol before his state funeral in Washington, DC, and burial in Georgia.
The coffin of former President Jimmy Carter was transported on a horse-drawn caisson to the Capitol Rotunda, where Vice President Kamala Harris said his works “speak for him louder than any tribute we can offer.
The body of former President Jimmy Carter will lie in state at the U.S. Capitol this week before a state funeral at the Washington National Cathedral.
The ceremonies will conclude in his hometown of Plains, Georgia, where he will be buried beside his wife of 77 years, Rosalynn Carter, who passed away in 2023. Together, the Carters had long planned their modest resting place in Plains, where they began their lives together on a peanut farm.
Former President Jimmy Carter 's casket arrived at the U.S. Capitol Tuesday afternoon for a military tribute and to lie in state in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda, with lawmakers and members of public invited to pay their respects.
Former President Jimmy Carter died Sunday, Dec. 29, at 100 years old. His death came just over a year after the death of his wife of 77 years, Rosalynn Carter.
After days of tributes in Georgia, former President Jimmy Carter traveled to Washington, D.C. for the next part of his funeral.