25TH INAUGURAL CEREMONIES
PRESIDENT
GROVER
CLEVELAND
March 4, 1885
VICE PRESIDENT
THOMAS
HENDRICKS
ABOUT THE SWEARING-IN CEREMONIES
Grover Cleveland was sworn-in as the 22nd President of the United States. Thomas Hendricks was sworn-in as the 21st Vice President of the United States on the previous day, March 3, 1885.
Location:
East Portico, U.S. Capitol
Washington, D.C.
Weather:
Sunny. Estimated noon temperature of 54°F.
Bible Used:
Bible given to him at age 15 by his mother. This Bible was opened by Chief Justice Waite at random to Psalm 112:4-10.
VICE PRESIDENTIAL OATH OF OFFICE
Administered to Thomas Hendricks in the Senate Chamber on March 3, 1885
(Died November 25, 1885. A new Vice President was never appointed for the remainder of President Cleveland’s term.)
PRESIDENTIAL OATH OF OFFICE
Administered to Grover Cleveland
by the Honorable Morrison R. Waite,
Chief Justice of the United States
INAUGURAL ADDRESS
“On this auspicious occasion we may well renew the pledge of our devotion to the Constitution, which, launched by the founders of the Republic and consecrated by their prayers and patriotic devotion, has for almost a century borne the hopes and the aspirations of a great people through prosperity and peace and through the shock of foreign conflicts and the perils of domestic strife and vicissitudes.”
President Grover Cleveland