Only JFK and Taft are buried at Arlington National Cemetery. Most presidents are buried in their hometowns, but Wilson is buried in the National Cathedral. Over 300,000 people are buried there, including 62 foreign nationals and famous figures like Grissom and Holmes.
Only two US presidents have been buried at Arlington National Cemetery: John F. Kennedy and William Taft. Most other presidents are buried in their hometowns or other private plots outside of Washington, D.C. In fact, Woodrow Wilson is the only other president buried in Washington and he is the only president buried in the National Cathedral of Washington.
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There are 62 foreign nationals buried in the cemetery, including people from the Netherlands, Germany, the United Kingdom, Australia, China and South Vietnam, along with one of unknown origin.
Famous people buried in Arlington include explorers Robert C. Scott, Admiral Richard Byrd and John Wesley Powell, as well as astronaut Gus Grissolm, Judge Oliver Wendell Holmes and author Samuel Dashiell Hammett.
More than 300,000 people are buried at Arlington Cemetery, including nearly 4,000 escaped slaves. The cemetery has an average of 28 burials and inurns per day.
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