Washington National Cathedral - Burials

Burials

Several notable American citizens are buried in Washington National Cathedral and its columbarium:

• Larz Anderson, businessman, diplomat
• Thomas John Claggett, first Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland
• William Forman Creighton, fifth Bishop of Washington
• Joseph Edward Davies (ashes), diplomat, presidential adviser. He gave a stained-glass window in the Cathedral in honor of his mother, Rachel Davies (Rahel o Fôn)
• George Dewey, United States Navy admiral
• Angus Dun (ashes), fourth Bishop of Washington
• Philip Frohman (ashes), cathedral architect, following the death of Bodley
• Alfred Harding, second Bishop of Washington
• Cordell Hull, United States Secretary of State
• Helen Keller (ashes), author, lecturer, advocate for the blind and deaf
• A.S. Mike Monroney (ashes), U.S. representative, senator
• Norman Prince, fighter pilot, member of the Lafayette Escadrille flying corps
• Henry Yates Satterlee, first Bishop of Washington
• Francis Bowes Sayre, Jr. (ashes), dean of the cathedral
• John Wesley Snyder (US Cabinet Secretary), Secretary of the Treasury in the Truman administration
• Leo Sowerby (ashes), composer, church musician
• Anne Sullivan (ashes), tutor and companion to Helen Keller, first woman interred here
• Stuart Symington, U.S. senator, presidential candidate
• Henry Vaughan, architect, associate of Bodley
• John Thomas Walker, sixth Bishop of Washington
• Isabel Weld Perkins, author, wife of Larz Anderson
• Edith Wilson, second wife of Woodrow Wilson and First Lady of the United States
• Woodrow Wilson, 28th U.S. president. Wilson's tomb includes variants on the Seal of the President of the United States and the coat of arms of Princeton University. Wilson is the only American president buried in the District of Columbia. His grandson, Francis Bowes Sayre, Jr., later became dean of the Cathedral and was also buried here.