Photo From the Attic: Death of a President

By Roll Call Staff

Posted August 5, 2009 at 4:02pm

[IMGCAP(1)]President Warren G. Harding, who died suddenly after just two years in office, drew crowds to Washington in August 1923 for his state funeral at the Capitol. Here, mourners wait in long lines to pay their respects to the 29th president.

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