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More inauguration trivia

#1 Post by bazodee » Mon Jan 12, 2009 11:31 am

How many Presidents have taken the Presidential Oath of Office in two different cities/towns?
Who were they and what were the circumstances?

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#2 Post by Bob78164 » Mon Jan 12, 2009 1:33 pm

bazodee wrote:How many Presidents have taken the Presidential Oath of Office in two different cities/towns?
Who were they and what were the circumstances?
My guesses
LBJ, of course, and I think Truman may not have been in D.C. when FDR had his stroke. I would guess Madison might not have wanted to be in Washington for the 1813 inauguration, due to the War of 1812. Both of Washington's were probably in New York and both of Jefferson's would have been in Philadelphia, so I'm out of ideas.
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#3 Post by nitrah55 » Mon Jan 12, 2009 1:48 pm

bazodee wrote:How many Presidents have taken the Presidential Oath of Office in two different cities/towns?
Who were they and what were the circumstances?
Fillmore.
Arthur.
TR.
Coolidge.
LBJ.

They were VPs who were sworn in whereever they happened to be when the President died, and then were re-elected. Andrew Johnson and Truman were, I think, in Washington when Lincoln and FDR died. I am assuming Fillmore was re-elected, but I'm not sure.
I am about 25% sure of this.

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#4 Post by macrae1234 » Mon Jan 12, 2009 1:49 pm

Spoiler
Washington in NYC and Philly Washington didn't exist yet
Arthur NYC and Washington Garfield's death
TR Buffalo and Washington Mckinley's death
Coolidge somewhere in VT and Washington Harding's death
LBJ Dallas and Washington JFK's death
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#5 Post by nitrah55 » Mon Jan 12, 2009 1:50 pm

Bob78164 wrote:
bazodee wrote:How many Presidents have taken the Presidential Oath of Office in two different cities/towns?
Who were they and what were the circumstances?
My guesses
LBJ, of course, and I think Truman may not have been in D.C. when FDR had his stroke. I would guess Madison might not have wanted to be in Washington for the 1813 inauguration, due to the War of 1812. Both of Washington's were probably in New York and both of Jefferson's would have been in Philadelphia, so I'm out of ideas.
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Spoiler
Truman was in DC when FDR died. He was called out of the Speaker's office in the Capitol, where he was having a drink. When he got to the White House, Eleanor Roosevelt told him the President was dead.
I am about 25% sure of this.

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#6 Post by bazodee » Mon Jan 12, 2009 6:10 pm

Good for you guys..

Washington took the oath in New York in 1789 in New York and at the beginning of his second term in Philadelphia in 1793 (to which the capital had been moved.)

Teddy Roosevelt became President in Buffalo at the time of the assassination of McKinley in 1901. His second inauguration was in Washington in 1905.
The site in Buffalo is now a unit of the National Park Service.

Calvin Coolidge took the oath (administered by his father) in Plymouth Notch, Vermont upon the death of Harding in 1923 and then in Washington in 1925.

Lyndon Johnson took the oath in 1963 aboard Air Force 1 while parked on the runway at Love Field, Dallas, and then in Washington in 1965.

Chester Arthur took the oath upon the death of James Garfield while at home in New York; two days later he staged a second ceremony in Washington. I suppose the question should have been tightened a bit to exclude secondary, ceremonial oath taking.

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