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(NEXSTAR) – For decades, Americans person gathered astatine the Capitol Building successful Washington D.C. to ticker the inauguration of the incoming president, but determination are immoderate noteworthy exceptions.
While the archetypal and 2nd inaugurations of President George Washington were held extracurricular of Washington D.C., they were inactive held successful the nation's capital, which was successful New York City successful 1789, and, for Washington's 2nd inauguration successful 1793, successful Philadelphia.
The inauguration ceremonial would move to Washington D.C. for Thomas Jefferson's 1801 oath of office, according to the National Library of Congress, but circumstances successful consequent years would unit the inauguration to hap connected a plane, astatine a workplace and astatine a idiosyncratic residence.
Chester A. Arthur (1881)
After conscionable 200 days successful bureau — a presidency historians called "impactful," if abbreviated — an "embittered attorney" passed implicit for a consular station changeable President James A. Garfield astatine a Washington, D.C. railroad station.
Garfield would not past his injuries, making his vice president, Chester A. Arthur, caput of state.
On Sept. 20, 1881, then-Vice President Arthur took the oath of office astatine his location successful New York City, with New York Supreme Court Judge John R. Brady administering the proceedings, according to authoritative accounts.
The adjacent day, helium took his oath again, this clip earlier a radical of invited guests wrong the vice president's country astatine the U.S. Capitol, according to UC Santa Barbara's "The American Presidency Project."
Theodore Roosevelt (1901)
The assassination of President William McKinley led to an inauguration ceremonial hastily arranged astatine a location successful Buffalo, New York, according to the National Park Service.
McKinley was changeable doubly astatine constituent blank scope portion attending the Pan-American Exposition successful Buffalo, New York, connected Sept. 6, 1901, according to White House historians. He would dice 8 days later.
His vice president, Theodore Roosevelt, had been vacationing successful New York's Adirondack Mountains erstwhile helium received quality that McKinley was gravely wounded. Roosevelt rushed to Buffalo, but by the clip helium arrived McKinley had died.
Using a borrowed coat, pants, waistcoat, necktie and leather shoes, Roosevelt decided to instrumentality the oath of bureau instantly truthful the state wouldn't acquisition a spread successful leadership, according to the Park Service.
"I was truthful shocked by the unspeakable quality brought to maine past nighttime and by the calamity which it entailed upon the country, arsenic good arsenic by idiosyncratic sorrow which I feel, that I person had nary clip to deliberation of plans for the aboriginal behaviour of the office, which has been truthful abruptly and sadly thrust upon me," Roosevelt said, according to a paper relationship from The Richmond Dispatch.
The impromptu inauguration ceremonial was held successful the room of the location of Roosevelt's friend, Ansley Wilcox. The location is present unfastened to the nationalist arsenic the Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site.
Calvin Coolidge (1923)
The decease of a sitting president brought astir different unorthodox inauguration – this clip successful 1923 erstwhile Calvin Coolidge was sworn successful utilizing a household book astatine the Vermont farmhouse successful Plymouth Notch where helium grew up.
Coolidge was ushered into bureau aft President Warren G. Harding died of a bosom attack successful 1923 portion successful San Francisco, according to White House historians.
After learning astatine 2:30 a.m. connected August 3, 1923, that helium was president, Coolidge's father, a notary public, had his lad spot his manus connected the household Bible and curse the oath of office.
The birthplace and puerility location of President Coolidge person since been preserved arsenic a Vermont State Historic Site.
Lyndon Johnson (1963)
Roughly 2 hours aft President John F. Kennedy was assassinated portion riding successful a statesmanlike motorcade successful Dallas, Lyndon Johnson made past by becoming the lone president to beryllium inaugurated connected an airplane.
Johnson took the oath of bureau successful the guardant compartment of Air Force One successful Dallas, according to a Library of Congress blog post. District Judge Sarah T. Hughes administered the oath, the archetypal clip a pistillate had done truthful successful U.S. history.
Photos amusement Johnson flanked by archetypal woman Jacqueline Kennedy and his wife, Claudia "Lady Bird" Johnson arsenic helium pledged to "preserve, support and support The Constitution of the United States."
Five days later, helium would code Congress and invoke Kennedy's imaginativeness for the country, calling for the transition of civilian rights and taxation legislation.
Fast forwarding to Monday, President-elect Trump's inauguration ceremonial is already making history. While the ceremonial volition hap astatine the Capitol, Trump announced that it volition beryllium held inside the Capitol Rotunda to shield radical from the brutal acold forecast for that day. An indoor inauguration ceremonial hasn't happened since President Reagan's successful 1985, according to The Washington Post.
