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{{Short description|Historic burial ground in Washington, D.C.}}
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The '''Congressional Cemetery''', officially '''Washington Parish Burial Ground''', is a historic and active [[cemetery]] located at 1801 E Street, [[Southeast (Washington, D.C.)|S.E.]], in [[Washington, D.C.]], on the west bank of the [[Anacostia River]]. It is the only American "cemetery of [[national memory]]" founded before the Civil War.<ref name = "NHL nom p4">National Historic Landmark Nomination, p. 4</ref> Over 65,000 individuals are buried or memorialized at the cemetery, including many who helped form the nation and Washington, D.C., in the early 19th century.<ref name="congressional cemetery website"/>

[[Christ Church, Washington Parish|Christ Church]], an [[Episcopal Church (United States)|Episcopal church]], owns the cemetery. The [[Federal government of the United States|U.S. government]] has purchased 806 burial plots, which are administered by the [[United States Department of Veterans Affairs|Department of Veterans Affairs]]. Located about a mile and a half (2.4&nbsp;km) to the southeast of the [[U.S. Capitol Building]], the cemetery is historically associated with the [[U.S. Congress]].<ref>{{cite web |url = https://www.cem.va.gov/cems/lots/Congressional.asp |title = Congressional Cemetery Government Lots |access-date = 2024-07-17 |date = 2023-03-09 |website = National Cemetery Administration |publisher = U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs}}</ref> The cemetery still sells plots, and is an active burial ground. It is three blocks east of the [[Potomac Avenue (WMATA station)|Potomac Avenue Metro station]] and two blocks south of the [[Stadium-Armory (WMATA station)|Stadium-Armory Metro station]].

Many members of Congress who died while Congress was in session are interred at Congressional Cemetery. Other burials include early landowners and speculators, the builders and architects of early Washington, D.C., [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] diplomats, [[Mayor of Washington, D.C.|Washington, D.C. mayors]], American Civil War veterans, and 19th century Washington, D.C., families unaffiliated with the federal government.

The cemetery is the resting place of one [[Vice President of the United States|vice president]], one [[Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States|Supreme Court justice]], six [[Cabinet of the United States|Cabinet]] members, nineteen [[United States Senate|senators]], 71 [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. Representatives]], including a former [[Speaker of the United States House of Representatives|speaker of the House]], veterans from every American war, and [[J. Edgar Hoover]], the first [[Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI director]].<ref name="congressional cemetery website">{{cite web |title=Congressional Cemetery Website |url=http://www.congressionalcemetery.org/ |access-date=2004-12-29 |archive-date=2021-05-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210502170459/https://congressionalcemetery.org/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

The cemetery was listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] on June 23, 1969, and designated a [[National Historic Landmark]] in 2011.<ref name="NHL designation">{{cite web|title=National Register of Historic Places listings for June 24, 2011|url=http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/listings/20110624.htm|publisher=[[National Park Service]]|date=June 24, 2011|access-date=June 24, 2011|archive-date=August 28, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130828120402/http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/listings/20110624.htm|url-status=live}}</ref>

==History==
===19th century===
[[File:Latrobe Clinton LOC cropped.jpg|thumb|An 1812 architectural drawing of Vice President [[George Clinton (vice president)|George Clinton]]'s monument; Clinton was later reinterred in [[Kingston, New York]]. The monuments to the right are in the form of the Latrobe cenotaphs.]]
[[File:Sousa Grave and Bench DC.JPG|thumb|Grave of [[John Philip Sousa]]]]
Congressional Cemetery was established by private citizens associated with [[Christ Church, Washington Parish|Christ Church]] on a 4.5-acre plot in 1807, who later gave the property to the church, which gave it its official name ''Washington Parish Burial Ground''. By 1817 sites were set aside for government legislators and officials; this includes [[cenotaph]]s for many legislators buried elsewhere.  The cenotaphs, designed by [[Benjamin Latrobe]], each have a large square block with recessed panels set on a wider plinth and surmounted by a conical point.

From 1823 to 1876, the [[United States Congress|U.S. Congress]] funded the expansion, enhancement, and maintenance of the cemetery, but it never became a federal institution. Appropriations funded a gravel road from the [[United States Capitol|Capitol]] to the cemetery, paving within the cemetery, the public vault, fencing, and the gatehouse, and funerals for congressmen and the cenotaphs.<ref name = "NHL nom p4"/>  During the early part of this period, graves were laid out in a grid pattern in an extension of the grid in the [[L'Enfant Plan]] for Washington, and little or no landscaping or plantings were made on the grounds.<ref name = "NHL nom p8">National Historic Landmark Nomination, p. 8.</ref> The grid survives to this day and was extended as the cemetery expanded.

Starting in the late 1840s, the cemetery was influenced by the [[rural cemetery]] movement in which the graves were placed in a park-like setting with extensive landscaping.  To implement this new vision, the cemetery needed to expand.<ref name = "NHL nom p8"/>

Between 1849 and 1869, the cemetery grew in area to 35.75 acres. The original cemetery was located on block 1115 on E Street between 18th and 19th Streets Southeast in 1808.  In 1849, it doubled in size by acquiring the block  to its south, 1116. In 1853, it expanded to the east on blocks 1130, 1148 and 1149 between F and G Streets Southeast. In 1853–53, the cemetery expanded to the west by acquiring block 1104, between 17th Street and 18th Streets Southeast.  In 1858, the cemetery acquired block 1105 and Reservation 13. In 1859, it added blocks 1105 and 1123. Finally, the cemetery reached its current extent of 35.75 acres by growing south to Water Street Southeast with blocks 1106 and 1117 in 1869.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.congressionalcemetery.org/sites/default/files/acquisitionofthesqauresindrawing.pdf|title=Acquisition of the Squares|publisher=Association for the Preservation of Historic Congressional Cemetery|date=2011-01-14|access-date=2011-01-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131211234959/http://www.congressionalcemetery.org/sites/default/files/acquisitionofthesqauresindrawing.pdf|archive-date=2013-12-11|url-status=dead}}</ref>

====Arsenal Disaster Monument====
{{Main|Arsenal Monument}}
[[File:DC arsenal cenotaph.JPG|thumb|The Washington Arsenal Disaster Monument]]
In 1864, an explosion at the nearby [[Fort Lesley J. McNair|Washington Arsenal]] killed a woman supervisor and 20 teenage girls, most of them Irish, who worked packing explosives and cartridges. President [[Abraham Lincoln|Lincoln]] led the funeral procession to the cemetery and attended the graveside ceremonies.  Later a monument was erected over the graves of 16 of the victims.  A sculpture of a grieving young woman stands atop a marble column on the monument.<ref>NHL Nomination, pp. 11 and 23.</ref>  Local artist [[Lot Flannery]], of the Flannery Brothers Marble Manufacturers, sculpted the monument.<ref name=flannery>{{cite web | url=http://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=G1I98048Q3397.39158&menu=search&aspect=Keyword&npp=50&ipp=20&spp=20&profile=ariall&ri=&term=&index=.GW&aspect=Keyword&term=&index=.AW&term=&index=.TW&term=&index=.SW&term=&index=.FW&term=&index=.OW&term=76005972&index=.NW&x=9&y=10#focus | title=Arsenal Monument, (sculpture). | publisher=Smithsonian American Art Museum | access-date=October 30, 2014 | archive-date=October 31, 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141031003614/http://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=G1I98048Q3397.39158&menu=search&aspect=Keyword&npp=50&ipp=20&spp=20&profile=ariall&ri=&term=&index=.GW&aspect=Keyword&term=&index=.AW&term=&index=.TW&term=&index=.SW&term=&index=.FW&term=&index=.OW&term=76005972&index=.NW&x=9&y=10#focus | url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=lot>{{cite web | url=http://www.cem.va.gov/cems/lots/congressional.asp | title=Congressional Cemetery Government Lots | publisher=United States Department of Veterans Affairs | access-date=October 30, 2014 | archive-date=November 14, 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141114101944/http://www.cem.va.gov/cems/lots/congressional.asp | url-status=live }}</ref>

Eventually the land to the south of the cemetery was transferred to the [[National Park Service]], although the access road to the [[Robert F. Kennedy Stadium|RFK Stadium]] parking lot is administered by the DC Sports and Entertainment Commission. In the 1950s, it appeared that the southeast corner of the cemetery would become a part of the right of way for the [[Interstate 695 (District of Columbia)|Southeast-Southwest Freeway]]. However, protracted environmental litigation halted construction at [[Pennsylvania Avenue]], with the dead end of the freeway being connected by a temporary road to the RFK parking lot and to 17th Street Southeast at the southwest corner of the cemetery.

After 1876, the cemetery was seldom used or supported by Congress.  Nevertheless, many wealthy Washingtonians continued to bury family members there, and figures associated with the government who were local residents, including [[Marine Corps Band]] director [[John Philip Sousa]] and [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] director [[J. Edgar Hoover]], are buried there.

===20th century===
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By the 1970s, urban decay, the declining membership of Christ Church, and the declining value of the endowment funded by Christ Church, left the cemetery in serious difficulties.  Monuments and burial vaults were in disrepair.  Maintenance on buildings had been long delayed.  There was no paid staff and minimal funding.  Drug dealers and prostitutes began to occupy the cemetery.<ref name ="Preserve">Betsy Crosby, [http://www.preservationnation.org/magazine/2012/jan-feb/congressional-cemetery.html The Resurrection of Congressional Cemetery, Historic Capitol Cemetery Revived by Local Preservationists] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120504140345/http://www.preservationnation.org/magazine/2012/jan-feb/congressional-cemetery.html |date=2012-05-04 }}, [[Preservation (magazine)|Preservation]], January/February, 2012.</ref>

===21st century===
[[File:CongressionalCemetery2.jpg|thumb|The cemetery looking northeast]]
[[File:CongressionalCemeteryWashingtonDC.jpg|thumb|The cemetery looking northwest]]
The cemetery is still owned by Christ Church but since 1976 it has been managed by the Association for the Preservation of Historic Congressional Cemetery (APHCC).  Progress on the renovation was very slow until two volunteers became involved.  Jim Oliver, then assistant manager of the House Republican Cloakroom, became involved in the late 1980s and helped revive congressional interest in the cemetery. The K-9 Corps, a group of dog owners whose activities helped drive away the drug dealers, was organized in 1997.<ref name ="Preserve"/>

Renovation picked up after [[C-SPAN]] broadcast a video on the cemetery on July 5, 1996.<ref name="span A"/> The following weekend 100 airmen from [[Joint Base Andrews|Andrews Air Force Base]] arrived unannounced to mow the 35-acre lawn, and a contingent from the Army post at [[Fort Belvoir]] followed the next month. A Joint Service Day involving all five branches of the U.S. military has since become an annual tradition. In 2013, a record 328 people participated.<ref name ="Preserve"/>

The [[National Trust for Historic Preservation]] included the cemetery on its 1997 list of  [[America's Most Endangered Places|America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places]] and many gifts and donations were soon received. Congress gave $1 million in matching funds in 1999 to create an endowment for basic maintenance, and a 2002 Congressional appropriation funds restoration.<ref name ="Preserve"/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.congressionalcemetery.org/Research/Newsletters/2000_2009/Newsletter_2007_Fall.pdf |title=Fall 2007 Heritage Gazette Newsletter |access-date=2010-03-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110725195452/http://www.congressionalcemetery.org/Research/Newsletters/2000_2009/Newsletter_2007_Fall.pdf |archive-date=2011-07-25 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

The APHCC now hosts over 1,000 volunteers each year working on a wide variety of projects, including planting bulbs, resetting tombstones,  pruning trees, adopting and landscaping individual plots, providing research, and writing a quarterly newsletter. Events hosted by the APHCC have included free guided tours on Saturdays, Christmas caroling, Christ Church's Easter services, book signings, Pride 5k race and Dead Man's Run 5k race, Day of the Dog Festival, and Ghosts & Goblets Gala.<ref name="congressional cemetery website"/>

In May 2013, Congressional Cemetery hired Topographix, a firm which surveys cemeteries using [[ground-penetrating radar]], to document burials in the cemetery. Although the cemetery had excellent records going back to its founding, many burial sites lacked a marker or had the marker removed or stolen. Additionally, subsidence of some areas and buckling in others has changed the location of some graves.<ref>[http://www.capitalcommunitynews.com/content/congressional-cemetery-revealed Bosworth, Sharon. "Congressional Cemetery Revealed."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131227001532/http://www.capitalcommunitynews.com/content/congressional-cemetery-revealed |date=2013-12-27 }} ''Capital Community News.'' June 1, 2013. Accessed 2013-12-25.</ref> The last time Congressional Cemetery was accurately and completely mapped was 1935.

By the end of 2013, about half the cemetery had been mapped, revealing a potential 2,750 unmarked burial sites. Cemetery staff said many of these burials are probably recorded, but some may be new discoveries. Congressional Cemetery officials said they were one of only 12 cemeteries in the city still accepting burials, and the mapping project would allow it to identify unused space. The mapping project was to be completed in the spring of 2014, and the cemetery said it would use the results to release a [[Mobile app|mobile phone app]] which will allow users to search for and locate graves on their own.<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/the-bone-finder-uses-ground-penetrating-radar-to-find-lost-graves-at-congressional/2013/12/13/9518d3e4-6441-11e3-91b3-f2bb96304e34_story.html Binkovitz, Leah. "'Bone Finder' Plots Unmarked Graves at Historic Congressional Cemetery."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160808114406/https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/the-bone-finder-uses-ground-penetrating-radar-to-find-lost-graves-at-congressional/2013/12/13/9518d3e4-6441-11e3-91b3-f2bb96304e34_story.html |date=2016-08-08 }} ''Washington Post.'' December 25, 2013. Accessed 2013-12-25.</ref>

In August 2013, the cemetery began using [[goat]]s to eat and clear the surrounding wooded area of [[Toxicodendron radicans|poison ivy]], [[Hedera helix|English ivy]], grass, and other plants. The 58 "eco-goats", which cost $4,000, are considered more ecologically friendly than mowers and pesticides and provide fertilizer as well. It was the first use of goats inside the beltway. The use of the goats drew widespread international attention and televised reports on BBC World News, Nat Geo, News Hour, NBC Nightly News, Tokyo TV, China CCTV, and Al-Jazeera.<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/at-congressional-cemetery-goats-eating-their-way-through-an-acre-of-poison-ivy/2013/08/07/a098cc44-ff81-11e2-9711-3708310f6f4d_story.html Shapira, Ian. "At Congressional Cemetery, Goats Eating Their Way Through an Acre of Poison Ivy."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171108061755/https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/at-congressional-cemetery-goats-eating-their-way-through-an-acre-of-poison-ivy/2013/08/07/a098cc44-ff81-11e2-9711-3708310f6f4d_story.html |date=2017-11-08 }} ''Washington Post.'' August 7, 2013, accessed 2013-08-08; [https://www.foxnews.com/politics/goats-are-the-go-to-in-historic-congressional-cemeterys-eco-cleanup-quest Weber, Joseph. "Goats Are the Go-To in Historic Congressional Cemetery's Eco-Cleanup Quest."]  ''Fox News.'' August 7, 2013, accessed 2013-08-08; "Grazing Goats Will Help Clean Up Historic Congressional Cemetery in Washington." Associated Press. August 7, 2013; [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-23611166 "Goats Graze in Historic Washington Graveyard."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150416053500/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-23611166 |date=2015-04-16 }} ''BBC World News.'' August 7, 2013, accessed 2013-08-08.</ref>

==Monuments and structures==
[[File:ClayCalhoun QRc CC.JPG|thumb|[[Cenotaph]]s of former [[United States Senate|U.S. Senators]] [[John C. Calhoun]] (left) and [[Henry Clay]]]]
The Congressional Cemetery is a [[National Historic Landmark]] [[Historic District]] with nine [[contributing structure]]s and 186 contributing objects built from 1817 to 1876. Later structures and objects are considered to be "non-contributing" even if they are significant in the cemetery's current appearance.<ref name="NHL p9">NHL Nomination, p. 9.</ref>

===Cenotaphs===
[[File:QR CC cenotaphs Tip and Hale.JPG|thumb|Cenotaphs of [[Tip O'Neill]] (front, with flag) and [[Hale Boggs]] (rear, with flag) with [[QRpedia]] codes displayed on metal spikes]]
Of the 186 contributing objects, 168 are the nearly identical Congressional [[cenotaph]]s, believed to have been designed by the [[Architect of the Capitol]] [[Benjamin Latrobe]].<ref name="NHL p9"/> As used at the Congressional Cemetery, the term "cenotaph" includes not only monuments to those buried elsewhere, but also the Latrobe monuments that mark occupied graves of representatives and senators.  Some congressmen are buried under a cenotaph, some are buried without one in a different area of the cemetery, and for some the marker is a true cenotaph. [[James Gillespie (U.S. politician)|James Gillespie]] (1747–1805), who was reinterred in 1892, has a separate grave and cenotaph.

A cenotaph was erected for each congressman who died in office from 1833 to 1876. The first was for former U.S. Representative [[James Lent]]. After Congress appropriated funds and his monument was ordered, his family reinterred the body in New York. Congress erected the monument in 1839 anyway, establishing the tradition of erecting cenotaphs.<ref name=ceno/>

The cenotaphs are constructed of [[Aquia Creek sandstone|Aquia sandstone]], as are the [[White House]] and the [[United States Capitol|Capitol]], and were likewise painted white, forming a visual connections with these nearby symbols of federal government, and a contrast to the surrounding gravestones.  They are grouped in rows in the older part of the cemetery where they dominate the landscape.<ref name = "NHL nom p8"/>

After the Civil War very few congressmen were buried in the cemetery, as their bodies were commonly shipped to their home states or buried in the new [[National Cemetery|National Cemeteries]] such as [[Arlington National Cemetery]]. Cenotaphs were discontinued in 1876 after Massachusetts Senator [[George Frisbie Hoar]] stated that "the thought of being buried beneath one of those atrocities brought new terror to death."<ref name=ceno>[http://www.congressionalcemetery.org/sites/default/files/WT2%20Cenotaphs.pdf Congressional Cemetery]{{Dead link|date=August 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, 2007, Cenotaph Walking Tour, accessed April 3, 2012.</ref>

[[William Thornton]], who served as Architect of the Capitol before Latrobe, is the only person honored with a cenotaph who did not serve as a congressman.  Former [[Speaker of the United States House of Representatives|Speaker of the House]] [[Tip O'Neill]] was honored with a cenotaph in 1994, though it is not in the style of a Latrobe cenotaph. After a [[Nick Begich Sr.#Disappearance|1972 plane crash]] in which their bodies were lost, [[Hale Boggs]] and [[Nick Begich Sr.|Nicholas Begich]] share a cenotaph.  These are the only cenotaphs erected since 1876.<ref name=ceno/>

===Public Vault===
{{Main|Public Vault at the Congressional Cemetery}}
[[File:Public Vault roses CC.JPG|thumb|The [[Public Vault at the Congressional Cemetery|Public Vault]]]]
The [[Public Vault at the Congressional Cemetery|Public Vault]] is an early classical revival structure built from 1832 to 1834 with [[Federal government of the United States|federal]] funds to store the bodies of government officials prior to burial.

A classical marble facade with baroque scrolls decorates the partially subterranean vault. Double wrought iron doors have the words "PUBLIC VAULT" displayed by means of vent holes.<ref name="NHL p9"/>  Temporary residents of this vault have included three [[list of Presidents of the United States|U.S. president]]s: [[John Quincy Adams]] (1848), [[William Henry Harrison]] (1841), and  [[Zachary Taylor]] (1850).  President Harrison stayed in the vault for three months, three times longer than the time he served as president.<ref name="Washian">Josh Swiller, [http://www.washingtonian.com/articles/people/a-walk-through-congressional-cemetery/ A Walk Through Congressional Cemetery] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121105010327/http://www.washingtonian.com/articles/people/a-walk-through-congressional-cemetery/ |date=2012-11-05 }}, Washingtonian, May 19, 2011.</ref>

[[First Lady of the United States|First Lady]] [[Dolley Madison]] was interred in the Public Vault for two years, the longest known interment in the vault, while funds were being raised for her reinterment at [[Montpelier (Orange, Virginia)|Montpelier]]. Her body was transferred to the Causten family vault, located directly across the path from the Public Vault, for another six years before the funds were raised.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdMtziloE7k American Artifacts: Congressional Cemetery] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160414161557/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdMtziloE7k |date=2016-04-14 }}, American History TV, CSPAN3, on YouTube, accessed April 16, 2012.</ref>  First Lady [[Louisa Catherine Adams]] has been reported as having been interred in the Public Vault, but other sources report that she was interred in the Causten family vault.<ref name="PV Post">{{cite news|title=The Public Vault|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/panorama/2006/12/13/PA2006121300640.html|work=[[The Washington Post]]|access-date=April 17, 2013|date=December 13, 2006|archive-date=March 5, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305045021/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/panorama/2006/12/13/PA2006121300640.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Cong Cem L Adams">{{cite web|title=First Lady Louisa C. Adams|url=http://www.congressionalcemetery.org/first-lady-louisa-c-adams|publisher=Association for the Preservation of Historic Congressional Cemetery|access-date=April 17, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131009093239/http://www.congressionalcemetery.org/first-lady-louisa-c-adams|archive-date=October 9, 2013|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}</ref><ref>Johnson and Johnson, p. 139, unequivocally states that Louisa Adams was interred in the Causten family vault the day after her death.</ref> Adams is now buried next to her husband in the [[United First Parish Church]] in Quincy, Massachusetts.

[[Lewis Powell (conspirator)|Lewis Powell]] is believed to have spent a night in the vault while avoiding pursuit for his role in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.<ref name="Washian"/>

==Grand funerals==
Several nationally important or otherwise remarkable funerals have taken place at the Congressional Cemetery.  These funerals featured long formal processions starting at the [[White House]] or the [[United States Capitol|Capitol]], moving down [[Pennsylvania Avenue]] to E Street SE, and then to the cemetery. Parts of this road were specially funded by Congress to facilitate these processions.  The form and protocol of these funerals formed the basis for later U.S. [[State funerals in the United States|state funerals]], including those of Presidents Abraham Lincoln and [[John F. Kennedy]].<ref>Johnson and Johnson, Chapter 2, "The Grand Procession to the National Burial Ground."</ref>

These funerals include those held to honor:
* [[George Clinton (vice president)|George Clinton]], vice president, funeral held April 22, 1812.  The procession included President [[James Madison]] as well as the officers and members of both houses of Congress.<ref>[http://www.congressionalcemetery.org/vice-president-george-clinton Vice President George Clinton] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110817052556/http://www.congressionalcemetery.org/vice-president-george-clinton |date=2011-08-17 }}, reprinted from The [[National Intelligencer]] by the Association for the Preservation of Historic Congressional Cemetery, accessed April 27, 2012.</ref>
* [[Jacob Brown (general)|Jacob Jennings Brown]], [[Commanding General of the United States Army]] and [[War of 1812]] hero, funeral held February 24, 1828.<ref>Morris, John D. (2000). ''Sword of the Border: Major General Jacob Jennings Brown, 1775–1828''. [[Kent State University Press]]. {{ISBN|978-0-87338-659-3}}.</ref>
* [[William Henry Harrison]], president, 1841.  After services at the [[White House]] the procession included the new president [[John Tyler]] and former president John Quincy Adams, as well as officers and members of the Congress and the state legislature of Maryland, extending over two miles long.<ref>[http://www.congressionalcemetery.org/president-william-henry-harrison President William Henry Harrison] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141012172257/http://www.congressionalcemetery.org/president-william-henry-harrison |date=2014-10-12 }}, reprinted from The [[National Intelligencer]] by the Association for the Preservation of Historic Congressional Cemetery, accessed April 27, 2012.</ref>
* [[Abel P. Upshur]], Secretary of State, [[Thomas Walker Gilmer]], Secretary of the Navy, Commodore Beverly Kennon, Chief of the Bureau of Construction & Equipment, [[David Gardiner (politician)|David Gardiner]], former state senator from New York, victims of a February 28, 1844, explosion on the {{USS|Princeton|1843|6}}. [[Virgil Maxcy]], ''[[chargé d'affaires]]'' of the U.S. to [[Belgium]] was also killed in the explosion, but he was buried separately in his family plot.<ref>[http://www.congressionalcemetery.org/secretary-abel-p-upshur-secretary-thomas-wgilmer-commodore-beverly-kennon-hon-david-gardiner-hon-vir Victims of the USS Princeton explosion] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131009095803/http://www.congressionalcemetery.org/secretary-abel-p-upshur-secretary-thomas-wgilmer-commodore-beverly-kennon-hon-david-gardiner-hon-vir |date=2013-10-09 }}, reprinted from February 29, 1844, edition of The ''[[National Intelligencer]]'' by the Association for the Preservation of Historic Congressional Cemetery, accessed April 27, 2012.</ref>
* [[John Quincy Adams]], former president, former senator, and representative, who died in the Capitol, funeral held February 28, 1848.<ref>[http://www.congressionalcemetery.org/president-john-quincy-adams President John Quincy Adams] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131009093956/http://www.congressionalcemetery.org/president-john-quincy-adams |date=2013-10-09 }} includes reprints from 1848 editions of the National Intelligencer,  Association for the Preservation of Historic Congressional Cemetery, accessed May 2, 2012.</ref> Adams is buried in the [[United First Parish Church]] in Quincy, Massachusetts.
* [[Dolley Madison]], former First Lady, funeral held July 16, 1849. President Zachary Taylor and his Cabinet attended services at [[St. John's Episcopal Church, Lafayette Square|St. John's Church]] in [[Lafayette Square Historic District, Washington, D.C.|Lafayette Square]], whence the cortege proceeded to the Public Vault at the Congressional Cemetery.<ref>[http://www.congressionalcemetery.org/first-lady-dolley-p-madison First Lady Dolley P. Madison] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131009095657/http://www.congressionalcemetery.org/first-lady-dolley-p-madison |date=2013-10-09 }} includes reprints from 1849 editions of the National Intelligencer,  Association for the Preservation of Historic Congressional Cemetery, accessed May 2, 2012.</ref>
* [[Zachary Taylor]], president, funeral held July 13, 1850. Proceeding from the [[White House]], the cortege included the new president [[Millard Fillmore]], the Cabinet, the officers and members of both houses of Congress, numerous military units, and Taylor's favorite horse, Old Whitey.<ref>[http://www.congressionalcemetery.org/president-zachary-taylor President Zachary Taylor] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131011091659/http://www.congressionalcemetery.org/president-zachary-taylor |date=2013-10-11 }} includes reprints from 1850 editions of the National Intelligencer,  Association for the Preservation of Historic Congressional Cemetery, accessed May 2, 2012.</ref>

==Notable interments==
{{Main|List of burials at the Congressional Cemetery}}
[[File:Mary Ann Hall CC.JPG|thumb|upright=0.8|[[Mary Ann Hall]], owner of a 19th-century Washington, D.C. brothel]]
[[File:J Edgar Hoover Grave DC.JPG|thumb|upright=0.8|[[J. Edgar Hoover]]]]
[[File:Tom Lantos grave, Congressional Cemetery, Washington, D.C..JPG|thumb|upright=0.8|[[Tom Lantos]]]]
[[File:Macomb grave CC.JPG|thumb|upright=0.8|[[Alexander Macomb (general)|Alexander Macomb]]]]
[[File:Pushmataha grave.jpg|thumb|upright=0.8|[[Pushmataha]]]]
[[File:JT McLaughlin Cong Cemetery W6 DC.JPG|thumb|upright=0.8|John T. McLaughlin]]
[[File:Chief Taza at CC no QR.JPG|thumb|upright=0.8|[[Chief Taza]]]]
* [[Joseph Anderson (Tennessee politician)|Joseph Anderson]] (1757–1837), U.S. Senator (Tennessee), [[Office of the Comptroller of the Currency|Comptroller of the U.S. Treasury]]
* [[Alexander Dallas Bache]] (1806–1867), Superintendent of the [[United States Coast and Geodetic Survey|United States Coast Survey]], Charter member [[United States National Academy of Sciences|National Academy of Sciences]]
* [[Philip P. Barbour]] (1783–1841), U.S. Congressman (Virginia), [[Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States|Associate Justice of the Supreme Court]]
* [[Marion Barry]] (1936–2014), Mayor of the District of Columbia, [[Civil Rights Movement]] activist
* [[Theodorick Bland (congressman)|Theodorick Bland]] (1741–1790), U.S. Congressman (Virginia), the first to die in office
* [[Thomas Blount (statesman)|Thomas Blount]] (1759–1812) U.S. Congressman (North Carolina), [[American Revolutionary War|Revolutionary War]] prisoner of war
* [[Thomas Hale Boggs Jr.]] (1940–2014), Washington, D.C. lawyer and lobbyist
* [[John Edward Bouligny]] (1824–1864), U.S. Congressman (Louisiana), the only member of the Louisiana Congressional delegation to retain his seat after the state seceded during the Civil War (grave unmarked)
* [[Lemuel Jackson Bowden]] (1815–1864), U.S. Senator (Virginia), represented Virginia during the Civil War
* [[John Brademas]] (1927–2016), U.S. Congressman (Indiana), [[NYU|NYU, President]] and [[Federal Reserve Bank of New York|Chair, Federal Reserve Bank of New York]]
* [[Mathew Brady]] (1822–1896), Civil War photographer
* [[William A. Burwell]] (1780–1821), U.S. Congressman (Virginia), private secretary to [[Thomas Jefferson]], U.S. Congressman (Virginia) from 1806 to 1821.
* [[Levi Casey (politician)|Levi Casey]] (1752–1807), U.S. Congressman (South Carolina), general in the South Carolina Militia and American Continental Army
* [[Herbert L. Clarke]] (1867–1945), cornet soloist and solo cornetist for the [[John Philip Sousa]] Band
* Francis Doyle (1833–1871), brother of Peter Doyle and first [[Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia|Washington, D.C. police]] officer killed in the line of duty
* [[Peter Doyle (transit worker)|Peter Doyle]] (1843–1907), partner to poet [[Walt Whitman#Sexuality|Walt Whitman]]
* [[Barbara Gittings]] (1932–2007), LGBT rights activist
* [[Owen Thomas Edgar]] (1831–1929), longest surviving [[Mexican–American War]] veteran
* [[John Forsyth (politician)|John Forsyth]] (1780–1841), U.S. Congressman and Senator (Georgia), [[Governor of Georgia]], [[United States Secretary of State|U.S. Secretary of State]]
* [[Henry Stephen Fox]] (1791–1846), British diplomat
* [[Mary Fuller]] (1888–1973), silent film actress
* [[Elbridge Gerry]] (1744–1814), [[Vice President of the United States|Vice President]] and the only signer of the [[United States Declaration of Independence|Declaration of Independence]] buried in Washington, D.C.
* [[James Gillespie (U.S. politician)|James Gillespie]] (1747–1805), U.S. Congressman (North Carolina), colonel of the North Carolina militia in the Revolutionary War
* Count [[Adam Gurowski]] (1805–1866), a fiery one-eyed Polish exile and radical
* [[George Hadfield (architect)|George Hadfield]] (1763–1826), architect, superintendent of construction for the [[United States Capitol|U.S. Capitol]]
* [[Archibald Henderson]] (1783–1859), the longest-serving [[Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps]]
* [[Dandridge Featherston Hering]] (1925–2012), West Point graduate, founder of the San Francisco's Barbary Coast Boating Club
* [[David Herold]] (1842–1865), conspirator of the [[Abraham Lincoln assassination]]
* [[J. Edgar Hoover]] (1895–1972), [[Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI Director]]
* [[Adelaide Johnson]] (1859–1955), sculptor, social reformer
* [[Horatio King]] (1811–1897), [[Postmaster General of the United States|U.S. Postmaster General]]
* [[Tom Lantos]] (1928–2008), U.S. Congressman (California), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the only [[The Holocaust|Holocaust]] survivor elected to Congress
* [[Alain LeRoy Locke]] (1885–1954), African-American writer, philosopher, and educator
* [[Belva Ann Lockwood]] (1830–1917), first woman attorney permitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court
* [[Joseph Lovell]] (1788–1836), [[Surgeon General of the United States Army|Surgeon General of the U.S. Army]]
* Charles E. (1845–1923) and Sarah Whitlock Luckett (1860–1917), grandparents of first lady [[Nancy Reagan]] and parents of actress [[Edith Luckett Davis|Edith Davis]]
* [[Alexander Macomb (general)|Alexander Macomb]] (1782–1841), War of 1812 hero, commanding general of the Army and namesake of [[Macomb County, Michigan|Macomb County]] and [[Macomb Township, Michigan]]; [[Macomb, Illinois]], and [[Macomb Mountain]] in New York
* [[Leonard Matlovich]] (1943–1988), gay rights activist and Air Force veteran
* [[Robert Mills (architect)|Robert Mills]] (1781–1855), architect and designer of the [[Washington Monument]]
* [[Robert Adam Mosbacher]] (1927–2010), [[United States Secretary of Commerce|U.S. Secretary of Commerce]]
* [[Joseph Nicollet]] (1786–1843), mathematician and explorer who mapped the upper [[Mississippi River]], namesake of [[Nicollet, Minnesota|City of Nicollet]], [[Nicollet County, Minnesota|County of Nicollet]] and [[Nicollet Island]] in [[Minnesota]]
* [[Daniel Patterson (naval officer)|Daniel Patterson]] (1786–1831), U.S. Navy commodore
* [[Peter Pitchlynn]] (1806–1881), Native American ([[Choctaw]]) Chief
* [[Alfred Pleasonton]] (1824–1897) U.S. Army officer in the Union cavalry during the Civil War
* [[Pushmataha|Push-Ma-Ta-Ha]] (c. 1760–1824), Native American ([[Choctaw]]) Chief
* [[Warren M. Robbins]] (1923–2008), founder of the [[National Museum of African Art]]
* [[Cokie Roberts]] (1943–2019), journalist for ABC news, daughter of [[Hale Boggs]] and [[Lindy Boggs]]
* [[Edith Nourse Rogers]] (1881–1960), social reformer, U.S. Congresswoman (Massachusetts), sponsor of the [[G. I. Bill]] and [[Women's Army Corps]]
* [[Alexander Smyth]] (1765–1830), lawyer, soldier, U.S. Congressman (Virginia)
* [[Henry Schoolcraft]] (1793–1864), geographer, geologist, and ethnologist
* [[Pat Schroeder]] (1940–2023), U.S. Representative (Colorado). The first woman elected to represent Colorado in Congress.{{citation needed|date=June 2024}}
* [[Stephen Solarz]] (1940–2010), nine-term member of the U.S. House of Representatives (New York), serving from 1975 to 1993.
* [[John Philip Sousa]] (1854–1932), composer of many noted military and patriotic marches and conductor of the U.S. Marine Band
* [[Samuel L. Southard]] (1787–1842), U.S. Senator (New Jersey), [[United States Secretary of the Navy|Secretary of the Navy]], [[Governor of New Jersey]], president pro tempore of the Senate
* [[Chief Taza]] (c. 1849–1876), [[Apache]] Chief
* [[William Thornton]] (1759–1828), physician, painter, designer and first [[Architect of the Capitol]] and superintendent of the [[United States Patent and Trademark Office|U.S. Patent Office]]
* [[Thomas Tingey]] (1750–1829), [[U.S. Navy]] commodore
* [[John Payne Todd]] (1792–1852), son of [[Dolley Madison]], stepson of President [[James Madison]]
* [[Clyde Tolson]] (1900–1975), associate director of the [[FBI]]
* [[Joseph Gilbert Totten]] (1788–1864), military officer, longtime Army Chief of Engineers, regent of the [[Smithsonian Institution]], cofounder of the [[National Academy of Sciences]] and namesake of [[Fort Totten (Washington, D.C.)|Fort Totten]] in Washington, D.C.
* [[Uriah Tracy]] (1755–1807), U.S. Congressman and Senator (Connecticut)
* [[William Wirt (Attorney General)|William Wirt]] (1772–1834), [[United States Attorney General|U.S. Attorney General]], member of the Virginia House of Delegates, author
* [[Sidney M. Wolfe]] (1937–2024), physician, co-founder and director of [[Public Citizen]]'s Health Research Group.

==Association and active cemetery==
[[File:Chapel Congressional Cemetery.JPG|thumb|The Congressional Cemetery Chapel]]
[[File:Congressional Cemetery 2009 (4).jpg|thumb|Green space at the cemetery]]
The cemetery is administered by the Association for the Preservation of Historic Congressional Cemetery (APHCC), which is a non-profit corporation headed by a 15-member board of directors. The association has nine full-time employees, one part-time archivist, and over 500 volunteers.<ref>{{cite web |title=Meet Our Staff |url=https://congressionalcemetery.org/meet-our-staff/ |website=Congressional Cemetery |access-date=February 11, 2024}}</ref> Its mission is:
<blockquote>

Historic Congressional Cemetery preserves, promotes, and protects our historic and active burial ground. We respectfully celebrate the legacy of those interred here through education, historic preservation, community engagement, and environmental stewardship.<ref name="p2">{{Cite web|title=About Us|url=https://congressionalcemetery.org/about-us/|access-date=2021-01-25|website=Historic Congressional Cemetery|language=en-US|archive-date=2021-01-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210117223138/https://congressionalcemetery.org/about-us/|url-status=live}}</ref></blockquote>

In 2009, the association retained Oehme, van Sweden & Associates to develop a new landscape plan.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.congressionalcemetery.org/sites/default/files/2009annualreport.pdf|title=2009 Annual Report|publisher=Association for the Preservation of Historic Congressional Cemetery|date=2011-01-14|page=10}}{{Dead link|date=August 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> The cemetery has approximately 2,000 plots available for sale.  On March 20, 2014, the cemetery received its green burial certification from the [http://www.greenburialcouncil.org/ Green Burial Council].  Green burials are allowed in any plot in the cemetery.

===K-9 Corps===
Congressional Cemetery is also known for allowing members of the Association for the Preservation of Historic Congressional Cemetery (APHCC) to walk dogs off-leash on the cemetery grounds. In addition to their membership dues, '''K-9 Corps''' members pay a fee for the privilege of walking their dogs. K-9 Corps members provide about 20% of Congressional Cemetery's operating income. Dog walkers follow a set of rules and regulations and provide valuable volunteer time to restore the cemetery.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cemeterydogs.org/ |title=Cemetery Dogs |access-date=2008-07-25 |archive-date=2017-06-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170615184506/http://cemeterydogs.org/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>

The K-9 Corps program is recognized as providing the impetus for the revitalization of Congressional Cemetery, which had fallen into neglect prior to the program's creation.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/21/AR2006122101127.html | title=Congressional Cemetery's Slow Resurrection | work=The Washington Post | first=Ryan | last=Holeywell | date=December 22, 2006 | access-date=April 30, 2010 | archive-date=June 4, 2011 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604215556/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/21/AR2006122101127.html | url-status=live }}</ref> In 2008, the association restricted K-9 membership, placing restrictions on dogwalkers as the program became more popular.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.congressionalcemetery.org/ |title=Dogwalking Program Overview |access-date=2004-12-29 |archive-date=2021-05-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210502170459/https://congressionalcemetery.org/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The K-9 Corps program has been nationally recognized for creative use of [[urban green space]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cemeterydogs.org/ |title=Cemetery Dogs {{!}} Serving the Historic Congressional Cemetery |access-date=2008-07-25 |archive-date=2017-06-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170615184506/http://cemeterydogs.org/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==See also==
* [[List of National Historic Landmarks in the District of Columbia]]
* [[List of burial places of presidents and vice presidents of the United States]]
* [[List of burial places of justices of the Supreme Court of the United States]]
* [[Alexander Dallas Bache Monument]]

==Notes==
{{Reflist}}

==Sources==
* {{cite book |last1=Boggs Roberts |first1=Rebecca |last2=Schmidt |first2=Sandra K. |title=Historic Congressional Cemetery |date=2012 |publisher=Arcadia Press (Images of America) |location=Columbia, SC |isbn=978-0738592244}}
* {{cite book
  | last =Johnson  | first =Abby A.   |author2=Ronald M. Johnson  | title =In the Shadow of the United States Capitol: Congressional Cemetery and the Memory of the Nation  | publisher =New Academia Publishing | year =2012  | page =434 | url =https://books.google.com/books?id=tRm5NAEACAAJ | isbn = 978-0986021626 }}
* {{cite web
  | last =Sienkewicz | first =Julia A.  | title =Congressional Cemetery National Historic Landmark Nomination | publisher =National Park Service | year =2009 | url =http://www.nps.gov/history/nhl/Fall10Noms/Congressional.pdf
  | access-date =March 30, 2012  }}
* [http://www.congressionalcemetery.org/sites/default/files/CemeteryHistory_Senate-1906.pdf History of the Congressional Cemetery]{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, U.S. Senate, December 6, 1906
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20140810130937/http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pnp/habshaer/dc/dc1000/dc1018/data/dc1018data.pdf Congressional Cemetery], Historic American Landscapes Survey, 2005
* {{cite book
  | last = Moeller | first =Gerard Martin   |author2=G. Martin Moeller Jr.
  | title =AIA Guide to the Architecture of Washington, D.C.|edition= 5th  | publisher =JHU Press | year =2012 | pages =45–47
  | url =https://books.google.com/books?id=mJItGGOiIn4C&q=congressional+cemetery&pg=PT44
  | isbn = 978-1421406268  }}

==External links==
{{Commons category}}
{{Wikivoyage|Washington, D.C./Capitol Hill}}
* {{Official website |1=http://www.congressionalcemetery.org/}} with [https://web.archive.org/web/20140201190231/http://www.congressionalcemetery.org/sites/default/files/Daily%20Map.pdf map] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20120504012556/http://www.congressionalcemetery.org/interment-index-0 index]
* {{HABS |survey=DC-424 |id=dc0394 |title=Congressional Cemetery, Latrobe Cenotaphs}}
* {{HALS |survey=DC-1 |id=dc1018 |title=Congressional Cemetery}}
* [http://www.cemeterydogs.org/ CemeteryDogs.org] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170615184506/http://cemeterydogs.org/ |date=2017-06-15 }}, K9 Corps website
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoodS6ZUmeo Cemetery Dog], YouTube video
* [https://archive.today/20130218224410/http://wj.la/M7BOUf QR codes at Congressional Cemetery], Channel 7 ABC [[WJLA]] in Washington, July 17, 2012
* [http://www.c-span.org/video/?301813-3/congressional-cemetery/ C-SPAN American History TV Tour of Congressional Cemetery]
* {{GNIS|type=retired|531306}}
* {{Find a Grave cemetery}}
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