Roger B. Taney, Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from March 1836 to October 1864, administered the Oath of Office to seven Presidents, more than anyone else.
He administered the Oath to...
The Oath of Office will be Administered to President-elect Barack H. Obamaby the Chief Justice of the United States The Honorable John G. Roberts, Jr.
The oath of office has been administered by the Chief Justice in recent years .
Chief Justice
Traditionally, the Chief Justice of the United States administers the Oath of Office to the president-elect. For Barack Obama's inauguration, Chief Justice John Roberts administered the oath of office to the president-elect, Barack Obama.
The Chief Justice of the United States usually swears in the newly elected President of the United States. Any person who is legally qualified to administer such as a Justice of the Peace can legally perform this act. That is what happens if the president dies in office and the vice-president is sworn in as president.
10.6%George Washington is the only U.S. President to date whose Inauguration Day swearing-in was administered by someone other than the Chief Justice (in both 1789 and 1793). That's 3.5% of the 57 Inauguration Days to date.For the nine Presidents who assumed office mid-term due to the death or resignation of the preceding President, only four of them had the oath administered by the Chief Justice, either initially or as a follow-up; 55.6% did not.
The Presidential Oath of Office
Neither the first Chief Justice, John Jay, nor the nominal second Chief Justice, John Rutledge, administered the Oath of Office to any US President. The practice wasn't established until the third Chief Justice, Oliver Ellsworth, participated in John Adams' 1796 inauguration.The incumbent Chief Justice, John G. Roberts, Jr., who has only been in office since 2005, has only sworn in one President, Barack Obama, because the United States has had only a single Presidential election during Roberts' tenure.
Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase administered the Oath of Office to Andrew Johnson on April 15, 1865, the day President Lincoln died.
Chief Justice John Marshall, who had been appointed to the Court by President Thomas Jefferson's predecessor, John Adams, administered Jefferson's Oath of Office on March 4, 1801. Jefferson was sworn in what was then the new Senate Chamber (now the Old Supreme Court Chamber) of the partially constructed Capitol Building.
The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court administer the oath of office to the President. Earl Warren was Chief Justice when Ford became president.
The Honorable Chief Justice of the United State Supreme Court William Rhenquist.