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A FEW FACTS CONCERNING
PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATIONS
When Franklin DelanO Roosevelt
was inaugurated yesterday, it mark
led the 34th presidential inaugura
ton at the present capital. In al
27 men have gone through 81 pres
idential inaugurations. The first in
auguration was held in New York
City April 80, 1889, and the next
two a Philadelphia. Thomas Jeffer
Ison was the first president to be in
laugurated in Washington, and the
inaugurations since have all been
there. While Franklin d. Roose-
velt is usually spoken of as the 32nd
president, on the list, there are but
I31, since Grover Cleveland was
jelected; then in four years was de-
feated by Benjamin Harrison. and
-four years later was again elected.
The other second termers are count
cd only once.
Through the formalities of an in
Iaugural ceremony were Tyler, Fill
more, Johnson and Arthur, who
went to the presidency by the deaths
of their chiefs They took the oath
without ceremony. So did Theodore
Roosevelt and Calvin Coolidge, but
they later won the right to be in
augurated for themselves, having
been elected. That lamplight cere-
mony in which Coolidge was sworn
in by his father in New England
! farmhouse was later found illegal
and he took the oath a second time.
| Eleven presidents were elected for
a second term. They were Wash
ington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe,
Jackson, Lincoln, Grant, Cleveland,
Mckinley, Wilson and Roosevelt.
Garner is the second vice presi-
| dent to be inaugurated for a second
time since the system of party con-
ventions came into use. Vice Presi
| dent Marshall, who served with Will
son, was the first.
John Adams was twice elected
vice president to serve with George
| Washington; Samuel D. Tompkins
served through two terms with Pres
dent Monroe; John C. Calhoun was
| twice elected vice president on the
ticket with John Quincy Adams
| though Adams was beaten by An
| drew Jackson in his second effort.
Calhoun resigned before the end Of
his second term.
The inauguration yesterday, We'd
nesday, was the first since the
| date was changed from March 4.
Four times it has fallen on Sunday.
President Monroe took the oath on
| the following Monday. President
Taylor did the same. President
Hayes, however, just awarded the
election in a long drawn contro
versy took no chances with his
| title. During a dinner President
Grant had given him, Hayes, Grant
and the chief justice with a few
notables went into an adjoining
room and had the oath administered
on Sunday. He took it again the
next day in the formal Inauguration
ceremonies. President Wilson, in
his second Inauguration, took the
oath privately in the presidents
room at the capitol on Sunday and
went through the formal inaugura-
The form of presidents inaugu
raj was largely devised by George
Washington and through century
made in the actual ceremonies, other
than it has become much more elab-
crate Washington was inaugurated
in New York in 1889 for his first
term and travelled from Mount Yer
1xxyl I, II axIyy,
coaches He crossed streams on
barges Congress was late in arriv-
ing and the Inauguration was not
held until April 80. At noon Wash
ingtOn was escorted from his house
to the federal statehouse where he
stood on balcony in the presence
of vast throng to take the oath.
Chancellor Livingston administered
it. Il swear it; SO help me God,
responded Washington.
For his second term, Washington
was inaugurated in Philadelphia in
1898. Livingston again administer
ed the oath in ceremony similar
to that now used. The president
was driven to the capitol in hand
some coach surrounded by an escort.
There was procession, and at night
fireworks.
John Adams was inaugurated for
his one term in Philadelphia. Then
the District of Columbia was Great
ed, the capital named for Washing
ton and Jefferson elected. On in
auguration day, Jefferson walked
from his boarding house to the un-
finished capitol. Embittered, Adams
had already left the city. Only
about 1000 persons witnessed JEFF
ferson's Inauguration. Ten thousand
saw the inauguration of Madison.
eight years later.
President Monroe was the first to
take the oath of office out of doors
on a platform built over the plaza
at the east front of the capitol as is
now the custom. He had planned
to take the oath in the hall of the
house but the senate claimed the
honor. A wrangle followed and
Monroe moved the ceremony out
doors.
John Quincy Adams was not in
augurated on March 4, because OF
the election contest between him.
self and Andrew Jackson. When he
finally won the contest, amid charg-
es that Henry Clay, speaker of the
house, had turned his influence to-
ward Adams in response to prom
ised place in the cabinet, it was late
In the month. But the pomp of the
occasion helped to make up for its
lateneSS.
The Inauguration Of Jackson prob
ably would have exceeded the cere-
mony for John Quincy, but for the
fact that the president was in
mourning for his wife. whose death