While Monday's inauguration ceremony for President-elect Donald Trump is going to break tradition Inside With dangerously low temperatures at the Capitol, this isn't the first presidential swearing-in to take place in an unusual location – one president was even sworn in on an airplane.
The first inauguration in American history not to take place in Washington, D.C. President George Washington was sworn in for his first term on April 27, 1789, on the balcony of Federal Hall in New York City, which served as the temporary capital. According to the Library of Congress, the U.S. it was Sworn in for his second term In the Senate Chamber of Congress Hall in Philadelphia.
First inauguration in Washington, DC
John Adams also took the oath of office in Philadelphia. it was not until Thomas Jefferson's inauguration The swearing-in ceremony was moved to Washington, D.C. Jefferson took the oath of office inside the U.S. Capitol in 1801.
“Desiring to get away from the pomp and circumstance associated with the aristocracy, he simply walked the few blocks from his boarding house to the Senate, where he was sworn in by Justice John Marshall,” according to National Park Service“When it was over, he simply went back. Returning to the boarding house late for dinner, Jefferson occupied one of the only seats left at the far end of the table. Given the opportunity Someone offered him a better seat near the fireplace. Staying true to his egalitarian platform, Jefferson refused.”
The oath is being taken outside Washington.
Although most inaugural ceremonies in the years since have taken place in Washington, not all of them have taken place there.
After President James Garfield was shot in 1881, then-Vice President Chester A. arthur was shot took the oath of office At his private residence in New York City shortly after Garfield's death.
President Theodore Roosevelt was sworn in after the assassination of President William McKinley, who was shot on September 6, 1901. McKinley was expected to recover, so then-Vice President Roosevelt went. camping in the adirondacksWhen Roosevelt heard that McKinley was not expected to survive, he moved to Buffalo, New York. He was sworn in as President on September 14, 1901, at the Ansley Wilcox residence in Buffalo.
In August 1923, President Warren G. After Harding's unexpected death an apparent heart attackPresident Calvin Coolidge takes oath Coolidge family home In Plymouth Notch, Vermont.
President Lyndon Baines Johnson takes oath aboard the ship air force one At Love Field in Dallas, Texas, after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. This was the first time that a woman took the oath of office. This was the first and only time that a President took the oath of office on an airplane.
Inside or outside the Capitol, East or West
Jefferson brought the inaugural ceremony to Washington, but his ceremony took place inside. In 1829, President Andrew Jackson became the first president whose inauguration was held outside the East Portico of the Capitol. According to the Library of Congress, from Jackson's inauguration until President Jimmy Carter's inauguration in 1977, the ceremony largely took place in front of the East Portico of the Capitol.
Until the second inauguration of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1937, inaugurations were held in March, so the threat of cold temperatures was not as severe. But in 1841, William Henry Harrison was inaugurated on a bitterly cold day and he gave the longest speech ever – and he died of pneumonia a month later,
President William Taft In 1909, the oath of office took place in the Senate Chamber of the U.S. Capitol, amid heavy snowfall and high winds, although the parade still took place outside.
The 1981 inauguration of President Ronald Reagan was the first to be held on the West Front of the Capitol, which has been the customary site for years. However, the inauguration of his second term took place inside. cool breeze It felt like it was below zero that day in 1985, so Reagan took the oath of office in the Capitol Rotunda.