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The first inauguration of Thomas Jefferson as the third president of the United States was held on Wednesday, March 4, 1801. The inauguration marked the commencement of the first four-year term of Thomas Jefferson as president and the only four-year term of Aaron Burr as vice president. Jefferson was sworn in by Supreme Court Chief Justice John ...
Thomas Jefferson (April 13 [O.S. April 2], ... His inaugural address struck a note of reconciliation and commitment to democratic ideology, declaring, "We have been ...
The presidency of Thomas Jefferson began on March 4, 1801, when Thomas Jefferson was inaugurated as the third President of the United States, and ended on March 4, 1809. Jefferson assumed the office after defeating incumbent president John Adams in the 1800 presidential election .
Jefferson also publicly affirmed "acknowledging and adoring an overruling providence" by the nation in his First Inaugural Address, [7] and in his Second Inaugural Address expressed his need of "the favor of that Being in whose hands we are, who led our fathers, as Israel of old", and thus asked the nation "to join in supplications" with him to ...
U.S. President George W. Bush reacts during the inaugural parade in Washington, January 20, 2005. ... US President John Fitzgerald Kennedy delivers his inaugural address, on January 20, 1961 at ...
A short passage from Thomas Jefferson's 1801 inaugural address has been called the Washington Doctrine of Unstable Alliances. Outlined by Jefferson in his 1801 inaugural address, the Washington Doctrine of Unstable Alliances asserted that the US should consider its external military alliances to be temporary arrangements of convenience and ...
First president to deliver his inaugural address from memory. [138] First president to affirm the oath of office rather than to swear it. [139] First president who had been elected to actively seek reelection but be defeated for nomination for a second term by his party. [140] [141] First president to have a Christmas tree in the White House. [135]
President Donald Trump made only a smattering of false claims in his inaugural address on Monday, mostly sticking to vague rhetoric, subjective assertions and uncheckable promises of action. But ...