Donald Trump became the 47th American president on Monday, but the oath of office itself has been administered 73 times before to the 46 preceding chief executives. According to the Architect of the ...

Malaria in "Puck" Magazine. Public Domain. After taking the oath of office, the first thing James Garfield did was bend down to kiss his mother Eliza on the cheek. She was the first mother of a ...

But in one place the drafters of the Constitution wrote word for word what governance would look like under the newly constituted United States: the president’s oath of office. “I do solemnly ...

had ended their oath of office with “so help me God.” Actually, there is no compelling evidence that any president added “so help me God” before September 1881, when Chester A. Arthur was sworn in ...

The inauguration ceremony would move to Washington D.C. for Thomas Jefferson’s 1801 oath of office, according to the National ... passed over for a consular post shot President James A. Garfield at a ...

On Jan. 20, Donald Trump will take the presidential oath of office ... Arthur was sworn in after the death of James Garfield. But it was important in Cold War America to prove that it was ...

Parker, Kennesaw State University (THE CONVERSATION) On Jan. 20, 2025, Donald Trump will take the presidential oath of office ... in after the death of James Garfield. But it was important ...

Donald J. Trump made history on Jan. 20 when he became the first convicted felon to take the presidential oath of office. Speaking from the Capitol in Washington—the same building that was infamously ...