George Washington was sworn in as the first U. S. President at an inauguration ceremony on April 30, 1789, held on the steps of Federal Hall, 26 Wall Street, a block east of what is now the  New ...

The Marine Band, having played at nearly every presidential swearing-in ceremony since Thomas Jefferson's in 1801, readies for Barack Obama's inauguration (Meredith Bragg). Read more at http ...

This morning, I read President Thomas Jefferson’s first and second inaugural addresses (1801, 1805), President Andrew Jackson’s first inaugural (1829) and President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s ...

“We are all Republicans; we serve all Federalists,” Thomas Jefferson said a few months ... grace notes to the wider world. In his 1949 inaugural address, President Harry Truman offered a ...

Trump's will be just the fourth inauguration in history to be held inside. Between 1789 and 1817, for the swearing in of presidents George Washington, Jon Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James ...

save for Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson, who walked. Next is the vice president's swearing-in ceremony, followed by the president's. President-elect Donald Trump's first inauguration on ...

Thomas Jefferson became the first president to have his inauguration speech printed in a newspaper the same day he gave his address in 1801. The National Intelligencer printed the speech on the mo ...

Even seemingly minor inaugural moments have carried deep significance, shaped by historical context and presidential personalities. Thomas Jefferson walked to his 1801 inauguration from his ...

When Donald Trump assumes office as the 47th president of the United States, he will mark the solemn occasion with an inaugural address ... that confronted Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln ...

James Robenalt, author, lawyer, and presidential historian On March 4, 1801, Thomas Jefferson delivered his first inaugural address in the new capital city of Washington, DC. He spoke at a time ...