The 'March King' John Philip Sousa was born in Washington, D.C., the third of ten children of João António de Sousa (born in Spain to Portuguese parents) and Maria Elisabeth Trinkhaus, and he is buried at Congressional Cemetery in Washington, D.C. In which American city, home to the Abraham Lincoln Hotel, did he die in 1932?

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Reading, Pennsylvania. John Philip Sousa, the 'March King', was born in Washington, D.C. as the third of ten children of Spanish-born João António de Sousa and Maria Elisabeth Trinkhaus, died at the Abraham Lincoln Hotel in Reading, Pennsylvania in 1932, and is buried at Congressional Cemetery in Washington, D.C.