Here’s Who is Attending McCain Memorial at National Cathedral

By Roll Call Staff

Posted September 1, 2018 at 9:40am

Current and former U.S. and foreign leaders, much of official Washington and some of his fellow former Vietnam prisoners of war gathered at the National Cathedral in Washington on Saturday to celebrate the life of Sen. John McCain, who died on Aug. 25.

Former presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and former Sen. Joseph Lieberman will pay tribute to the longtime Arizona Republican senator during the service.

McCain was honored by dignitaries at the Capitol on Friday before it was opened to the public for a line of mourners who had waited out rain and humidity outside to file through and pay their respects.

McCainwill be buried on Sunday at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, from which he graduated in 1958.

Here is who is attending Saturday’s service at the Washington National Cathedral:

Current and former U.S. leaders

Former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
Former Vice President Al Gore
Former Vice President Richard Cheney
Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright
Former Secretary of State John Kerry
Former Sens. Bob Dole and Elizabeth Dole
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court Anthony Kennedy
Former Rep. Gabby Giffords and Capt. Mark Kelly
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi
Former Gov. Mitt Romney
Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats
Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao
Attorney General Jeff Sessions
Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie
Superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy Walter E Carter, Jr.
Former Secretary of Commerce Don Evans
Current and former members of Congress

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Current and former foreign leaders

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko
Mayor of Kyiv Vitali Klitschko
Former Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk
Former Deputy Foreign Minister of Ukraine and former Diplomatic Adviser to the Prime Minister of Ukraine Danylo Lubkivsky
Secretary General of NATO Jens Stoltenberg
Former Secretary General of NATO Anders Fogh Rasmussen
President of Panama Juan Carlos Varela
Former President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili
Minority Leader of the Parliament of Georgia (UNM) David Bakradze
Vice Speaker of the Parliament of Georgia (Dream Party) Tamar Chugoshvili
HE Sheikh Thani Bin Hamad Al Thani
Foreign Minister of Saudi Arabia Adel al-Jubeir
Director for International Affairs for the Office of the President of the Republic of Poland Witold Dzielski
Former President of Estonia Toomas Ilves
Defense Minister of Estonia Juri Luik
Foreign Minister of Estonia Sven Mikser
Former Canadian Minister of Defense and Member of Parliament Peter MacKay
Canadian Parliamentary Representative to the Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrew Leslie
Defense Minister of Canada Harjut Singh Sajjan
Foreign Minister of Lithuania Linas Linkevicius
Foreign Minister of Latvia Edgars Rinkevics
Former President of Colombia Jose Santos
President of the Bundestag (German Parliament) Wolfgang Schaeuble
Speaker of Taiwan Parliament Su Jia-chyuan
Former Sri Lankan Ambassador to the United States Devinda Subasinghe