page_title: Second inauguration of Ulysses S. Grant
hierarchical_section_title: Second inauguration of Ulysses S. Grant
caption_attribution_description: Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase administering the oath of office to President Ulysses S. Grant on March 4, 1873, during Grant's second presidential inauguration.
context_page_description: The second inauguration of Ulysses S. Grant as President of the United States was held on Tuesday, March 4, 1873, at the East Portico of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. This was the 22nd inauguration and marked the commencement of the second and final four-year term of Ulysses S. Grant as President and the only term of Henry Wilson as Vice President. Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase administered the presidential oath of office. This was one of the coldest inaugurations in U.S. history with 16 degrees Fahrenheit at noon, and the inaugural ball ended early when the food froze. Wilson died 2 years, 263 days into this term, and the office remained vacant since there was no constitutional provision which allow an intra-term vice-presidential office filling; it would be regulated by the Twenty-fifth Amendment in 1967.
context_section_description: The second inauguration of Ulysses S. Grant as President of the United States was held on Tuesday, March 4, 1873, at the East Portico of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. This was the 22nd inauguration and marked the commencement of the second and final four-year term of Ulysses S. Grant as President and the only term of Henry Wilson as Vice President. Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase administered the presidential oath of office. This was one of the coldest inaugurations in U.S. history with 16 degrees Fahrenheit at noon, and the inaugural ball ended early when the food froze. Wilson died 2 years, 263 days into this term, and the office remained vacant since there was no constitutional provision which allow an intra-term vice-presidential office filling; it would be regulated by the Twenty-fifth Amendment in 1967.
caption: Grant taking the oath of office.
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