Inauguration Trivia

-George Washington's was the shortest inaugural address at 135 words. (1793)
-Thomas Jefferson was the only president to walk to and from his inaugural. He was also the first to be inaugurated at the Capitol. (1801)
-The First inaugural ball was held for James Madison. (1809)
-John Quincy Adams was the first president sworn in wearing long trousers. (1825)
-Franklin Pierce was the first president to affirm rather than swear the oath of office (1853)
-Herbert Hoover followed suit in 1929
-William Henry Harrison's was the longest inaugural address at 8,445 words. (1841)
-The first inauguration to be photographed was James Buchanan's. (1857)
-Abraham Lincoln was the first to include African-Americans in his parade. (1865)
-James Garfield's mother was the first to attend her son's inauguration. (1881)
-William McKinley's inauguration was the first ceremony to be recorded by a motion picture camera. (1897)
-William Taft's wife was the first on to accompany her husband in the procession from the Capitol to the White House. (1909)
-Women were included for the first time in Woodrow Wilson's second inaugural parade. (1917)
-Warren G. Harding was the first president to ride to and from his inaugural in an automobile. (1921)
-Harry Truman's was the first to be televised. (1949)
-John Kennedy's inauguration had Robert Frost as the first poet to participate in the official ceremony. (1961)
-Lyndon Johnson was the first (and only) president to be sworn in by a woman, U.S. District Judge Sarah T. Hughes. (1963)
-Ronald Reagan's second inaugural was moved ahead a day because of Super Bowl Sunday. (1985)
-The warmest inauguration was Ronald Reagan's first (Jan. 20 1981). It was 55'. The coldest was Reagan's second (Jan. 21, 1985). It was 7'.
-The first ceremony broadcast on the Internet was Bill Clinton's second inauguration. (1997)
(trivia taken from www. infoplease.com/spot/inauguralincident.html)

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