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Three days before George Washington took the oath of office as the first president of the United States, Congress passed the following resolution: "Resolved, That after the oath shall have been administered to the President, he, attended by the Vice President and members of the Senate and House of Representatives, shall proceed to St. Paul's ...
By convention, incoming presidents raise their right hand and place the left on a Bible while taking the oath of office. In 1789, George Washington took the oath of office with an altar Bible borrowed from the St. John's Lodge No. 1, Ancient York Masons lodge in New York, and he kissed the Bible afterward.
The presidential oath of office was administered to George Washington by Associate Justice William Cushing. This was the first inauguration to take place in Philadelphia ( then the nation's capital ), and took place exactly four years after the new federal government began operations under the U.S. Constitution .
President-elect Donald Trump is set to take the oath of office for a second time on Inauguration Day. ... 2017 in Washington, DC. ... U.S. President George W. Bush reacts during the inaugural ...
The George Washington Inaugural Bible is the Bible that was sworn upon by George Washington when he took office as the first president of the United States on April 30, 1789. The Bible has subsequently been used in the inauguration ceremonies of several other U.S. presidents.
According to Washington Irving's biography of George Washington, after reciting the oath at his (and the nation's) first inauguration, Washington added the words "so help me God". [25] However, the only contemporaneous source that fully reproduced Washington's oath completely lacks the religious codicil. [26]
Three weeks after former Sen. Bob Menendez’s resignation, New Jersey officially has a new senator.. Sen. George Helmy was sworn in Monday evening in the U.S. Capitol Senate chamber. Helmy is the ...
Washington was inaugurated on April 30, 1789, taking the oath of office at Federal Hall in New York City. [i] ... Washington's nephew George Augustine Washington, ...