WASHINGTON — Senator John McCain, who died on Saturday at age 81, will lie in state in the Capitol Rotunda and receive a full dress funeral service at the Washington National Cathedral. Mr. McCain, who served for two decades in the Navy after graduating from the Naval Academy and who represented Arizona in Congress for 35 years, will also lie in state at the Arizona Capitol before his burial in Annapolis, Md., a Republican official involved in the planning said. The senator’s office said an official memorial schedule would be announced once funeral arrangements were finalized. [Read the obituary for John McCain, who endured five years of captivity in Vietnam and rose to the heights of power in Washington]

Source: New York Times August 26, 2018 02:46 UTC