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George Washington
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John Adams
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Thomas Jefferson
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James Madison
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James Monroe
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John Quincy Adams
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Andrew Jackson
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Martin Van Buren
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William Henry Harrison
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John Tyler
President Harrison contracted pneumonia during his inaugural ceremony and died 31 days
later on April 4, 1841. Vice President John Tyler was sworn in two days later at his
residence at the Indian Queen Hotel by US Circuit Court Judge William Cranch. He
served only one term and did not have opportunity to give an Inaugural Address.
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James Polk
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Zachary Taylor
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Millard Fillmore
President Taylor died on July 9, 1850 - a little more than a year after his Inauguration.
The following day Millard Fillmore received the oath of office from Judge William
Cranch (who had also administered the oath to Vice President Tyler) in the hall of the
House of Representatives. He served only one term and did not have opportunity to
give an Inaugural Address.
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Franklin Pierce
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James Buchanan
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Abraham Lincoln
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Andrew Johnson
Vice President Andrew Johnson received the oath of office from Supreme Court Chief Justice
Salmon Chase in his room at Kirkwood House on the day President Lincoln died. He
served only one term and never gave an Inaugural Address.
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Ulysses S. Grant
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Rutherford B. Hayes
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James A. Garfield
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Chester A. Arthur
Vice President Arthur took the oath of office twice upon the death of President Garfield.
On September 20, 1881, the day the President died, New York Supreme Court Judge
John R. Brady administered the oath to the Vice President at his home in New York.
The following day Supreme Court Chief Justice Morrison Waite again administered the oath,
this time at the Vice President's Washington, DC office. He never gave an Inaugural
Address.
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Grover Cleveland
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Benjamin Harrison
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Grover Cleveland
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William McKinley
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Theodore Roosevelt
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William H. Taft
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Woodrow Wilson
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Warren G. Harding
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Calvin Coolidge
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Herbert Hoover
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Harry S Truman
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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John F. Kennedy
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Lyndon B. Johnson
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Richard M. Nixon
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Gerald R. Ford
House Minority Leader Gerald Ford became Vice President two months after Vice President
Spiro Agnew resigned on October 10, 1973. Eight months after he became VP, President
Nixon resigned and Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger administered the Presidential
oath of office to Vice President Ford on August 9, 1974 in the East Room of the White
House.
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Jimmy Carter
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Ronald Reagan
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George Herbert Walker Bush
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William Jefferson Clinton
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George W. Bush
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