5TH INAUGURAL CEREMONIES
PRESIDENT
THOMAS
JEFFERSON
March 4, 1805
VICE PRESIDENT
GEORGE
CLINTON
March 4, 1805
ABOUTH THE SWEARING-IN CEREMONIES
Thomas Jefferson was sworn-in for his second term as the 3rd President of the United States, and George Clinton was sworn-in as the 4th Vice President of the United States.
Location:
Senate Chamber, U.S. Capitol
Washington, D.C.
Weather:
Fair. Estimated noon temperature of 50°F.
FACTS, FIRSTS, AND PRECEDENTS
First Inauguration held in the Chamber of the U.S. House of Representatives.
INAUGURAL ADDRESS
“I shall now enter on the duties to which my fellow citizens have again called me, and shall proceed in the spirit of those principles which they have approved. I fear not that any motives of interest may lead me astray; I am sensible of no passion which could seduce me knowingly from the path of justice; but the weakness of human nature, and the limits of my own understanding, will produce errors of judgment sometimes injurious to your interests.”
President Thomas Jefferson
PRESIDENTIAL OATH OF OFFICE
Administered to Thomas Jefferson
by the Honorable John Marshall,
Chief Justice of the United States
VICE PRESIDENTIAL OATH OF OFFICE
Administered to George Clinton