PHOTOS: Presidential Inaugurations Through the Years
In honor of President Barack Obama's 2013 inauguration Jan. 21, we rounded up historic photos showing presidential oaths of office past.
By Mary Ann Barton President Barack Obama's second inauguration ceremony and celebration Jan. 21 is a far cry from the inauguration of our first president, George Washington. Get news in your inbox. Sign up for the Patch newsletter. Like Naperville Patch on Facebook. Washington's ceremony was April 30, 1789 at Federal Hall in New York City, where the federal government was headquartered at the time. It was in Philadelphia at Washington's second inauguration that he made the shortest inauguration speech on record—133 words and less than two minutes long. Later inaugurations were held in Philadelphia when the federal government moved there. One thing all swearing-in ceremonies have in common, though, are the presidential inauguration oath …
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