no
Buchanan was still in the chair when South Carolina seceded. But Lincoln had been inaugurated by the time the first shots were fired at Fort Sumter.
To date, 43 U.S. presidents have been inaugurated. President-Elect Barack Hussein Obama with be the 44th U.S. president to be inaugurated on January 20th 2009.
The President elect is the person who has won the November Presidential election, but has not yet been inaugurated.
The President elect is the person who has won the November Presidential election, but has not yet been inaugurated.
False.
Well, it MIGHT have been Thomas Jefferson? He was also the only president to walk to and from his inaugural, and the first president to be inaugurated at the Capitol. :)
Presidents are inaugurated at the beginning of each term. Cleveland was president for two terms, so he was inaugurated twice, as were (for example) George W. Bush and William J. Clinton. Cleveland is unique among US Presidents in that his two terms of office were not consecutive. However, he would have been inaugurated twice even if they had been.
The President of the United States is not inaugurated by Congress. In recent elections, the President elect has been inaugurated by a Justice of the United States Supreme Court. This occurs on the 20th of January in the year following the presidential election, e.g., 20 January 2009.
There has been 43 and the current 44th is Barrack Obama
It has always been the same, never has it changed. Voting has changed (paper to electronic) but HOW you vote for the president and vice president hasnt changed
The inauguration takes place in Washington, DC. Every US President since Thomas Jefferson has been inaugurated there.
Every US President (since FDR's second term) has been inaugurated on 20 January.