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There has been 57 inaugurations to date corresponding to the 57 presidential elections from 1788 to 2012. The five Presidents who never won a presidential election, Tyler, Fillmore, A. Johnson, Arthur and Ford, did not have a presidential inauguration.
56 US Presidential Inauguration ceremonies including Barack Obama.
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The first presidential inauguration known to have been photographed is the second inauguration of President Abraham Lincoln on March 4, 1865. The photographs were taken by Alexander Gardner, a prominent Civil War-era photographer.
There have been many great and inspirational inauguration/welcome speeches. One example is John F. Kennedy's Presidential Inauguration speech in which he challenged American to 'ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.'
43 This answer is clearly wrong because Barack Obama's inauguration will be the 56th inauguration. We know that Presidents elected to a second term are inaugurated again. The question is how do you get to 56? Here is what I think is the math: 43 Presidents add 15 elected to a second term ( do not count Cleveland as he is in the above count and was the 22nd and 24th President) add another 2 2 because Roosevelt was elected to a third and fourth term subtract 5 Vice Presidents who became President but were never elected to the office of President 55 Total and Barack's inauguration will make 56. As of January 19, 2009, there have been 43 US Presidential inaugurations. When President Elect Barack Obama is sworn into office, on January 20, 2009, this will then have been the 44th US Presidential inauguration.
The date of the U.S. Presidential Inauguration was moved to January 20 beginning in 1937 (Inauguration Day had been March 4 from Washington's time through 1933).
I am not certain what kind of inauguration you are speaking of so I am assuming you are speaking of a Presidential Inauguration in the United States of America. In that case, President John F. Kennedy would have been the first. He was inaugurated as President on January 20, 1961.
Some presidents were re-elected and so had more than one inauguration. Presidents who take office due to the death or resignation of the President do not have an inauguration ceremony unless they are later elected to a term of their own. Four presidents never had a inauguration ceremony. FDR had four.
There have been eighteen inaugurations since 1937. (They occur every four years even if the President does not change)
Nope. It's not a National holiday ... never has been.
Ever since Washington, D.C. became the capital of the United States in 1800, every public U.S. presidential inauguration has been held at the U.S. Capitol Building with two exceptions: James Monroe's first inauguration (the Capitol Building was still being rebuilt at that time after being destroyed by British forces during the War of 1812) and Franklin D. Roosevelt's fourth inauguration.The most popular location for public presidential inaugurations has been the Capitol's East Portico, but every public inauguration beginning in 1989 has taken place at the west front of the Capitol Building.