At approximately noon on January 20th of the year following his or her election. As of noon, the President Elect officially becomes the President regardless of whether he or she is officially sworn in or not. This information comes from the 20th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States as follows: "The terms of the President and Vice President shall end at noon on the 20th day of January, and the terms of Senators and Representatives at noon on the 3d day of January, of the years in which such terms would have ended if this article had not been ratified; and the terms of their successors shall then begin."
Inauguration Day; January 20th in the year following a presidential election. January 20
George Washington was the second time, and John Adams.
Washington was sworn in for the first time on April 30, 1789 in New York City.
Jackson was sworn in or outside of the Capitol building in Washington, DC.
Since the adoption of the 20th Amendment in 1933, a new President is sworn in at noon on the 20th day of January next following his election. Before (and including) 1933, new Presidents took office on March 4, The only exception having been George Washington's first inaugural in 1789. Washington did not get the news of his election in time for the official date, and so was not sworn in until April 30.
Every President since his time in office.
If the vice-president had to assume the office, he would be sworn in as President of the United States and would be called "Mr. President" from that time on.
William Rufus King , elected VP with President Franklin Pierce, died after about 6 weeks in office. He was too sick to travel the whole time and never made it to Washington. He was sworn in, in Cuba, where he went in hopes of regaining his health and died at his home in Alabama.
The U.S. Constitution says that the president must take the presidential oath and be sworn in; usually, it is the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court who administers the oath. If a president is re-elected, he still has to take the oath of office a second time.
The first time he became president, it was because Kennedy was killed and he had to assume office immediately. He was sworn in by a local justice of the peace while sitting in the presidential airplane. For his second term he had a standard inauguration and was sworn in by the chief justice.
Yes he does. Whether a president is elected for the first time or re-elected for a second term, there is an inauguration ceremony, and at that time, the president and vice president are sworn in.
Technically, there is no Constitutional requirement saying that the President must take the Oath of Office in Washington, D.C., and both George Washington and John Adams took their Oaths of Office in wherever happened to be the Capital at the time, either New York, N.Y. or Philadelphia, P.A. until the 1800s. However, every President since has taken the Oath at the US Capitol in Washington, D.C., except Franklin Roosevelt's 4th Oath, which was taken on the South Portico of the White House.
George Washington George Washington was the first ELECTED for office, but there was a time period of two weeks where George Washington had to get to office, and he had a replacement for those two weeks. didn't know that DID YOU!