because Inauguration Day has sometimes fallen on a Sunday, four presidents have taken the oath privately before the public ...

Inauguration has been a ceremony steeped ... James Garfield was shot and later died on Sept. 19, 1881 and Chester Arthur was sworn in the next day. In 1901, McKinley had struggled for a week ...

Although the phrase was used in federal courtrooms since 1789, the first proof it was used in a presidential oath of office came with Chester Arthur's inauguration in September 1881. Every ...

Chester Arthur's inauguration is one of only two ever in New York City. The other may have been a bit more memorable. It was the first one. George Washington, at Old Federal Hall near Wall Street.

The first inauguration in Washington ... After President James Garfield was shot in 1881, then-Vice President Chester A. Arthur took the oath of office in New York City at his private residence ...

Inauguration Day used to be held on March ... Bush in 1989. Vermont’s Chester A. Arthur took office in 1881 and Calvin Coolidge in 1923. New Hampshire’s Franklin Pierce was inaugurated in ...

The inauguration ceremony would move to Washington ... Garfield would not survive his injuries, making his vice president, Chester A. Arthur, head of state. On Sept. 20, 1881, then-Vice President ...

The only other inauguration Bible held by the Library of Congress belonged to Chester A. Arthur, a gift of his descendents. Most inauguration Bibles belong either to the families of the presidents ...

John Tyler, Millard Fillmore, Andrew Johnson, Chester Arthur, and Ford were all vice ... With Biden’s inauguration, twenty-two will have been held in January. Until 1937, presidents were ...