William Henry Harrison.
It actually was not that short. President Lincoln's second Inaugural Address was approximately 700 words in length. You are probably thinking of President George Washington's second Inaugural Address, which was the shortest Presidential Inaugural Address in history, to date.
It actually was not that short. President Lincoln's second Inaugural Address was approximately 700 words in length. You are probably thinking of President George Washington's second Inaugural Address, which was the shortest Presidential Inaugural Address in history, to date.
135 words by President George Washington, made during his second inaugural address.
I don't know of a U.S. President who almost died of pneumonia after his inaugural address, but William Henry Harrison did die of pneumonia after his inaugural address.On March 4, 1841, William Henry Harrison gave the longest inaugural address in U.S. history. The weather was terrible that day, and shortly thereafter he contracted pneumonia, of which he died a month after his inauguration.
He had the shortest Presidency in American history, dying in office after one month. He was the oldest President elected at that time, and he gave the longest inaugural address in American history after a grueling trip to Washington in the bitterly cold and rainy day. He caught a cold that become pneumonia, which would kill him.
That was George Washington's second inaugural speech in 1793. Click on the "Second George Washington Inaugural Speech" link below to read it. George Washington's 2nd inaugural address was the shortest in history.
The significance of Jefferson's 1801 Inaugural Address was that it marked the first transition of power, at the national level, from one political party (Federalists) to another (Democrat-Republicans) in the history of the USA.
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The significance of Jefferson's 1801 Inaugural Address was that it marked the first transition of power, at the national level, from one political party (Federalists) to another (Democrat-Republicans) in the history of the USA.
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