US Presidents timeline
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James Buchanan is inaugurated as the 15th president of the United States
The Democratic Party chose another candidate instead of their incumbent President when they nominated James Buchanan at the national convention.... Read more
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Abraham Lincoln Elected 16th President of the United States
Lincoln was chosen as the Republican candidate for the 1860 election for several reasons. His expressed views on slavery were seen as more moderate... Read more
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Lincoln Delivers Second Inaugural Address
Abraham Lincoln delivered his second inaugural address on March 4, 1865, during his inauguration at the start of his second term as President of... Read more
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President Abraham Lincoln Assassinated
Shortly after 10 P.M. on April 14, 1865, actor John Wilkes Booth entered the presidential box at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. and fatally... Read more
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Ulysses S. Grant is inaugurated as the 18th president of the United States
General Grant was the first of many Civil War officers to become President of the United States. He refused to ride in the carriage to the Capitol... Read more
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Calvin Coolidge is Born
John Calvin Coolidge, Jr. was born in Plymouth Notch, Windsor County, Vermont, on July 4, 1872, the only U.S. President to be born on the Fourth of... Read more
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Ulysses S. Grant's second inauguration
Frigid temperatures caused many of the events planned for the second inauguration to be abandoned. The thermometer did not rise much above zero... Read more
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Rutherford B. Hayes is inaugurated as the 19th president of the United States
The outcome of the election of 1876 was not known until the week before the inauguration itself. Democrat Samuel Tilden had won the greater number... Read more
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James Garfield is inaugurated as the 20th president of the United States
Snow on the ground discouraged many spectators from attending the ceremony at the Capitol. Congressman Garfield had been nominated on his party's... Read more
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President James A. Garfield Assassinated
Less than four months after his inauguration, President Garfield arrived at the Washington railroad depot on July 2, 1881, to catch a train for a... Read more
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President Chester A. Arthur Takes Oath of Office After the Assassination of James Garfield
On this day in 1881, Chester Arthur is inaugurated, becoming the third person to serve as president in that year. The year 1881 began with... Read more
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Franklin D Roosevelt is Born
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born on January 30, 1882 in the Hudson Valley town of Hyde Park, New York. His father, James Roosevelt, and his... Read more
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Grover Cleveland is inaugurated as the 22nd president of the United States
On the East Portico of the Capitol, the former Governor of New York was administered the oath of office by Chief Justice Morrison Waite. A... Read more
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Benjamin Harrison is inaugurated as the 23rd president of the United States
Nominated on the 8th ballot of the Republican convention, the Civil War veteran, jurist, and Senator from Indiana was the only grandson of a... Read more
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Grover Cleveland is inaugurated, for the second time, as the 24th president of the United States
A light snowfall the night before the inauguration discouraged many spectators from attending President Cleveland's second inauguration. The... Read more
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William McKinley is inaugurated as the 25th president of the United States
A Civil War officer, and a Governor and Congressman from Ohio, Mr. McKinley took the oath on a platform erected on the north East Front steps at... Read more
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William McKinley's second inauguration
The second inauguration was a patriotic celebration of the successes of the recently concluded Spanish American War. The new Vice President,... Read more
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President William McKinley is Shot Twice by Anarchist Leon Czolgosz
"The President was shot about 4 o'clock. One bullet struck him on the upper portion of the breast bone, glancing and not penetrating; the second... Read more
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President William McKinley Dies
McKinley's doctors believed he would recover, and the President convalesced for more than a week in Buffalo at the home of the exposition's... Read more
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Theodore Roosevelt is inaugurated as the 26th president of the United States
The energetic Republican President had taken his first oath of office upon the death of President McKinley, who died of an assassin's gunshot... Read more
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William Howard Taft is inaugurated as the 27th president of the United States
A blizzard the night before caused the ceremonies to be moved into the Senate Chamber in the Capitol. The oath of office was administered for the... Read more
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First Inauguration of Woodrow Wilson as 28th US President
Woodrow Wilson's First Inaugural Address THERE has been a change of government. It began two years ago, when the House of Representatives... Read more
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Woodrow Wilson's second inauguration
March 4 was a Sunday, but the President took the oath of office at the Capitol in the President's Room that morning. The oath was taken again the... Read more
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John F. Kennedy is Born
Kennedy was born at 83 Beals Street in Brookline, Massachusetts on Tuesday, May 29, 1917, at 3:00 p.m., the second son of Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr.,... Read more
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A Young John F. Kennedy Contracts Scarlet Fever
On February 20, 1920 when Jack was not yet three years old, he became sick with scarlet fever, a highly contagious and then potentially... Read more