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Chronological listing of the inaugural speeches given by Presidents of the United States.

18th century

1780s

First Inaugural Address - George Washington, (30 April 1789)

1790s

Second Inaugural Address - George Washington, (4 March 1793)
First Inaugural Address - John Adams, (4 March 1797)

19th century

1840s

First Inaugural Address - William Henry Harrison, (4 March 1841)
John Tyler was not inaugurated: Vice President John Tyler became President upon William Henry Harrison's death one month after his inauguration. U.S. Circuit Court Judge William Cranch administered the oath to Mr. Tyler at his residence in the Indian Queen Hotel on April 6, 1841.
First Inaugural Address - James K. Polk, (5 March 1845)
First Inaugural Address - Zachary Taylor, (5 March 1849)

1850s

Millard Fillmore was not inaugurated: Judge William Cranch administered the executive oath of office to Vice President Millard Fillmore on July 10, 1850 in the Hall of the House of Representatives. President Zachary Taylor had died the day before.
First Inaugural Address - Franklin Pierce, (4 March 1853)
First Inaugural Address - James Buchanan, (4 March 1857)

1860s

First Inaugural Address - Abraham Lincoln, (4 March 1861)
Second Inaugural Address - Abraham Lincoln, (4 March 1865)
Andrew Johnson was not inaugurated: On April 15, 1865, after visiting the wounded and dying President Lincoln in a house across the street from Ford's Theatre, the Vice President returned to his rooms at Kirkwood House. A few hours later he received the Cabinet and Chief Justice Salmon Chase in his rooms to take the executive oath of office.
First Inaugural Address - Ulysses S. Grant, (4 March 1869)

1870s

Second Inaugural Address - Ulysses S. Grant, (4 March 1873)
First Inaugural Address - Rutherford B. Hayes, (4 March 1877)

1880s

First Inaugural Address - James A. Garfield, (4 March 1881)
Chester A. Arthur was not inaugurated: On September 20, 1881, upon the death of President Garfield, Vice President Arthur received a group at his home in New York City to take the oath of office, administered by New York Supreme Court Judge John R. Brady. The next day he again took the oath of office, administered by Chief Justice Morrison Waite, in the Vice President's Office in the Capitol in Washington, D.C.
First Inaugural Address - Grover Cleveland, (4 March 1885)
First Inaugural Address - Benjamin Harrison, (4 March 1889)

1890s

Second Inaugural Address - Grover Cleveland, (4 March 1893)
First Inaugural Address - William McKinley, (4 March 1897)

20th century

1900s

Second Inaugural Address - William McKinley, (4 March 1901)
First Inaugural Address - Theodore Roosevelt, (4 March 1905)
First Inaugural Address - William Howard Taft, (4 March 1909)

1910s

First Inaugural Address - Woodrow Wilson, (4 March 1913)
Second Inaugural Address - Woodrow Wilson, (4 March 1917)

1920s

First Inaugural Address - Warren G. Harding, (4 March 1921)
First Inaugural Address - Calvin Coolidge, (4 March 1925)
First Inaugural Address - Herbert Hoover, (4 March 1929)

1930s

First Inaugural Address - Franklin Delano Roosevelt, (4 March 1933)
Second Inaugural Address - Franklin Delano Roosevelt, (20 January 1937)

1940s

Third Inaugural Address - Franklin Delano Roosevelt, (20 January 1941)
Fourth Inaugural Address - Franklin Delano Roosevelt, (20 January 1945)
First Inaugural Address - Harry S. Truman, (20 January 1949)

1950s

First Inaugural Address - Dwight Eisenhower, (20 January 1953)
Second Inaugural Address - Dwight Eisenhower, (21 January 1957)

1960s

First Inaugural Address - John F. Kennedy, (20 January 1961)
First Inaugural Address - Lyndon Baines Johnson, (20 January 1965)
First Inaugural Address - Richard M. Nixon, (20 January 1969)

1970s

Second Inaugural Address - Richard M. Nixon, (20 January 1973)
Assumption of the Presidency - Gerald Ford, (9 August 1974)
First Inaugural Address - Jimmy Carter, (20 January 1977)

1980s

First Inaugural Address - Ronald Reagan, (20 January 1981)
Second Inaugural Address - Ronald Reagan, (21 January 1985)
First Inaugural Address - George H. W. Bush, (20 January 1989)

1990s

First Inaugural Address - Bill Clinton, (20 January 1993)
Second Inaugural Address - Bill Clinton, (20 January 1997)

21st century

2000s

First Inaugural Address - George W. Bush, (20 January 2001)
Second Inaugural Address - George W. Bush, (20 January 2005)
First Inaugural Address - Barack Obama, (20 January 2009)

2010s

Second Inaugural Address – Barack Obama, (21 January 2013)
First Inaugural Address – Donald Trump (20 January 2017)

2020s

First Inaugural Address - Joe Biden, (20 January 2021)
Second Inaugural Address – Donald Trump (20 January 2025)

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