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By Moira Warburton WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The body of U.S. Representative Don Young of Alaska, who was the longest-serving Republican member of Congress of any era when he died this month, lay in state in the Capitol’s Statuary Hall on Tuesday, where his fellow lawmakers paid tribute. “His reverence and devotion to the House shone through in everything that he did,” Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat, said in a statement after his death was announced. “For five decades, he was an institution in the hallowed halls of Congress.” Young, the only member in the House representing the state of Alaska, …