7TH INAUGURAL CEREMONIES
PRESIDENT
JAMES
MADISON
March 4, 1813
VICE PRESIDENT
ELBRIDGE
GERRY
March 4, 1813
ABOUT THE SWEARING-IN CEREMONIES
James Madison was sworn-in for his second term as the 4th President of the United States, and Elbridge Gerry was sworn-in as the 5th Vice President of the United States.
Location:
House of Representatives Chamber, U.S. Capitol
Washington, D.C.
Weather:
According the National Intelligencer, “The day was fine, the sun shone brilliantly.”
VICE PRESIDENTIAL OATH OF OFFICE
Administered to Elbridge Gerry
INAUGURAL ADDRESS
“About to add the solemnity of an oath to the obligations imposed by a second call to the station in which my country heretofore placed me, I find in the presence of this respectable assembly an opportunity of publicly repeating my profound sense of so distinguished a confidence and of the responsibility united with it. The impressions on me are strengthened by such an evidence that my faithful endeavors to discharge my arduous duties have been favorably estimated, and by a consideration of the momentous period at which the trust has been renewed.”
President James Madison
PRESIDENTIAL OATH OF OFFICE
Administered to James Madison
by the Honorable John Marshall,
Chief Justice of the United States