April 13th, 2019 by WCBC Radio
WTOP reports Maryland’s longest-serving House speaker, the late Michael Busch, will lie in state Monday inside what is the nation’s oldest statehouse in continuous use. It’s an appropriate setting for Busch, who was a history buff. Construction of Maryland’s State House began in 1772 and was completed seven years later. The annex that’s in use today was added starting in 1902. Elaine Rice Bachmann, Maryland’s deputy state archivist, said there have been three occasions when a public official has lain in state
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