22ND INAUGURAL CEREMONIES
PRESIDENT
ULYSSES S.
GRANT
March 4, 1873
VICE PRESIDENT
HENRY
WILSON
March 4, 1873
ABOUT THE SWEARING-IN CEREMONIES
Ulysses S. Grant was sworn-in for his second term as the 18th President of the United States. Henry Wilson was sworn-in as the 18th Vice President of the United States during a separate ceremony on March 3, 1873.
Location:
East Portico, U.S. Capitol
Washington, D.C.
Weather:
The morning low temperature of 4°F was a record for the month of March. The day remains the coldest March day on record. During the day, bitterly cold winds gusted up to 40 mph. By noon, the temperature had risen to 16°F. Wind chill temperatures were -15° to -30°F.
Bible Used:
Bible provided by D. W. Middleton, Clerk of the Supreme Court, opened to Isaiah 11:1-3.
FACTS, FIRSTS, & PRECEDENTS
Coldest March 4 Inauguration Day—the noon temperature was 16°F.
VICE PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS
Delivered by Henry Wilson to the Senate on March 3, 1873
VICE PRESIDENTIAL OATH OF OFFICE
Administered to Henry Wilson
by outgoing Vice President Schuyler Colfax
in the Senate Chamber at the close of the 42nd Congress
INAUGURAL ADDRESS
“The theory of government changes with general progress. Now that the telegraph is made available for communicating thought, together with rapid transit by steam, all parts of a continent are made contiguous for all purposes of government, and communication between the extreme limits of the country made easier than it was throughout the old thirteen States at the beginning of our national existence.”
President Ulysses S. Grant
Read full address in the Senate Journal
PRESIDENTIAL OATH OF OFFICE
Administered to Ulysses S. Grant
by the Honorable Salmon P. Chase,
Chief Justice of the United States