Sen. John McCain, who died of brain cancer on Saturday at age 81, will lie in state in the Capitol Rotunda in Washington, D.C., next week.
The Arizona Republican, a war hero who spent five years in a prisoner of war camp in Vietnam, will also receive a full dress funeral service at the Washington National Cathedral, The New York Times reported.
The honors are reserved for “most eminent citizens.”
“More than 30 people have been honored by lying in state in the Capitol Rotunda, a gesture reserved for the country’s ‘most eminent citizens,’ since the practice began in 1852 after the death of Henry Clay, the former House speaker and senator from Kentucky. Mr. McCain would be the 13th former senator to be granted the honor, according to the Architect of the Capitol,” the Times wrote.
Two Republicans familiar with the planning said that Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama have been asked to offer eulogies at his funeral. Under initial plans for Mr. McCain’s funeral, Vice President Mike Pence was to attend, but not President Trump, who clashed repeatedly with Mr. McCain.
Sen. Chuck Schumer, the top Senate Democrat who often clashed with McCain, said he will introduce a resolution to rename the Russell Senate Office Building in honor of McCain.
McCain will also lie in state at the Arizona Capitol in Phoenix, a Republican official who is involved with planning told the Times. He will then be buried in Annapolis, Maryland, where McCain attended the U.S. Naval Academy.