'I Do Solemnly Swear...' Presidential Inaugurations

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George Washington April 30, 1789 March 4, 1793
John Adams March 4, 1797
Thomas Jefferson March 4, 1801 March 4, 1805
James Madison March 4, 1809 March 4, 1813
James Monroe March 4, 1817 March 5, 1821
John Quincy Adams March 4, 1825
Andrew Jackson March 4, 1829 March 4, 1833
Martin Van Buren March 4, 1837
William Henry Harrison March 4, 1841
John Tyler April 6, 1841
James Knox Polk March 4, 1845
Zachary Taylor March 5, 1849
Millard Fillmore July 10, 1850
Franklin Pierce March 4, 1853
James Buchanan March 4, 1857
Abraham Lincoln March 4, 1861 March 4, 1865
Andrew Johnson April 15, 1865
Ulysses S. Grant March 4, 1869 March 4, 1873
Rutherford B. Hayes March 5, 1877
James A. Garfield March 4, 1881
Chester Arthur September 20, 1881
Grover Cleveland March 4, 1885 March 4, 1893
Benjamin Harrison March 4, 1889
William McKinley March 4, 1897 March 4, 1901
Theodore Roosevelt September 14, 1901 March 4, 1905
William Howard Taft March 4, 1909
Woodrow Wilson March 4, 1913 March 5, 1917
Warren G. Harding March 4, 1921
Calvin Coolidge August 3, 1923 March 4, 1925
Herbert Hoover March 4, 1929
Franklin Delano Roosevelt March 4, 1933 January 20, 1937 January 20, 1941 January 20, 1945
Harry S. Truman April 12, 1945 January 20, 1949
Dwight D. Eisenhower January 20, 1953 January 21, 1957
John F. Kennedy January 20, 1961
Lyndon B. Johnson November 22, 1963 January 20, 1965
Richard M. Nixon January 20, 1969 January 20, 1973
Gerald R. Ford August 9, 1974
Jimmy Carter January 20, 1977
Ronald Reagan January 20, 1981 January 21, 1985
George Bush January 20, 1989
William J. Clinton January 20, 1993 January 20, 1997
George W. Bush January 20, 2001 January 20, 2005
Barack Obama January 20, 2009
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