page_title: United States Capitol rotunda
section_title: James Garfield
hierarchical_section_title: United States Capitol rotunda / Statues / James Garfield
caption_attribution_description: English: Bust of Martin Luther King, Jr. in Capitol Rotunda
context_page_description: The United States Capitol rotunda is the central rotunda of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C., built 1818–24. It is located below the Capitol dome, built 1857–66; the later construction also extended the height of the rotunda walls. It is the tallest part of the Capitol and has been described as its "symbolic and physical heart".
  The rotunda is connected by corridors leading south to the House of Representatives and north to the Senate chambers. To the immediate south is the semi-circular National Statuary Hall, which was the House of Representatives chamber until 1857. To the northeast is the Old Senate Chamber, used by the Senate until 1859 and by the Supreme Court until 1935.
  The rotunda is 96 feet in diameter, rises 48 feet to the top of its original walls and 180 feet 3 inches to the canopy of the dome, and is visited by thousands of people each day. It is also used for ceremonial events authorized by concurrent resolution, including the lying in state of honored dead.
context_section_description: James Garfield was the last American president to be born in a log cabin. Sculptor Niehaus returned to America in 1881 and by virtue of being a native Ohioan was commissioned to sculpt a monument to the recently assassinated President James Garfield, who was also from Ohio.
caption: Martin Luther King, Jr., is one of two African-American honored with a bust in the United States Capitol.
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