20TH INAUGURAL CEREMONIES
PRESIDENT
ABRAHAM
LINCOLN
March 4, 1865
VICE PRESIDENT
ANDREW
JOHNSON
March 4, 1865
ABOUT THE SWEARING-IN CEREMONIES
Abraham Lincoln was sworn-in for his second term as the 16th President of the United States. Andrew Johnson was sworn-in as the 16th Vice President of the United States during a separate ceremony on March 3, 1865.
Location:
East Portico, U.S. Capitol
Washington, D.C.
Weather:
Rained for two days and right up to the ceremony, when it ended and the sun broke through. Total rainfall for the day was .30 inches, with the bulk of it falling near daybreak. Grounds around the Capitol were very soft and muddy. Estimated noon temperature of 45°F.
Bible Used:
The origin of Lincoln’s second Inaugural Bible is unknown, but it was open to Matthew 7:1; 18:7; and Revelations 16:7.
FACTS, FIRSTS, & PRECEDENTS
African Americans participated in the Inaugural Parade for the first time.
VICE PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS
Delivered by Andrew Johnson to the Senate on March 3, 1865
VICE PRESIDENTIAL OATH OF OFFICE
Administered to Andrew Johnson
by outgoing Vice President Hannibal Hamlin
in the Senate Chamber at the close of the 38th Congress
INAUGURAL ADDRESS
“With malice toward none with charity for all with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right let us strive on to finish the work we are in to bind up the nation’s wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan — to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.”
President Abraham Lincoln
PRESIDENTIAL OATH OF OFFICE
Administered to Abraham Lincoln
by the Honorable Salmon P. Chase,
Chief Justice of the United States