<P> In 1998, Chestnut and Gibson were killed while defending the Capitol against Russell Eugene Weston Jr . Congress approved their remains to lie in honor in the Rotunda . Chestnut was the first African American to lie in honor . In 2005, upon the death of civil rights activist Rosa Parks, Congress authorized her remains to lie in honor at the Rotunda; Parks was the second African American and the first woman to lie in honor in the Capitol Rotunda . Graham was the first religious leader to be honored in this way . </P> <P> Supreme Court Justices "lie in repose" in the Great Hall of the United States Supreme Court Building . </P> <Ul> <Li> 1974--Chief Justice Earl Warren </Li> <Li> 1993--Justice Thurgood Marshall </Li> <Li> 1995--Chief Justice Warren E. Burger </Li> <Li> 1997--Justice William J. Brennan, Jr . </Li> <Li> 1999--Justice Harry A. Blackmun </Li> <Li> 2005--Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, the first so - honored to have died in office . </Li> <Li> 2016--Justice Antonin Scalia </Li> </Ul> <Li> 1974--Chief Justice Earl Warren </Li>

Who has laid in repose in the capitol rotunda