Death of Elijah E. Cummings

Proclamation 9951 of October 17, 2019

Death of Elijah E. Cummings

By the President of the United States of America

A Proclamation

As a mark of respect for the memory and longstanding
public service of Representative Elijah E. Cummings, of
Maryland, I hereby order, by the authority vested in me
by the Constitution and the laws of the United States
of America, that the flag of the United States shall be
flown at half-staff at the White House and upon all
public buildings and grounds, at all military posts and
naval stations, and on all naval vessels of the Federal
Government in the District of Columbia and throughout
the United States and its Territories and possessions
through October 18, 2019. I also direct that the flag
shall be flown at half-staff for the same period at all
United States embassies, legations, consular offices,
and other facilities abroad, including all military
facilities and naval vessels and stations.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
seventeenth day of October, in the year of our Lord two
thousand nineteen, and of the Independence of the
United States of America the two hundred and forty-
fourth.