President-elect Donald Trump's will be sworn in under the Capitol Rotunda, rather than outside. But he's not the only ...
For decades, Americans have gathered at the Capitol Building in Washington D.C. to watch the inauguration of the incoming ...
Inauguration Day is a crucial moment ... of 1865 following the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, Chester A. Arthur in September of 1881 following the assassination of James Garfield, Theodore ...
The most recent sitting president to not receive the party nod was President Chester Arthur, who served from 1881 to 1885 and ... less than a year after his inauguration. 'It was even a surprised ...
Julia Sand wrote to then-vice president Chester A ... the story begins on July 2, 1881, the day President James Garfield was shot. Arthur was known as a “machine” politician, one who ...
because Inauguration Day has sometimes fallen on a Sunday, four presidents have taken the oath privately before the public inaugural ceremonies, the website states. President Chester Arthur took ...