26TH INAUGURAL CEREMONIES
PRESIDENT
BENJAMIN
HARRISON
March 4, 1889
VICE PRESIDENT
LEVI P.
MORTON
March 4, 1889
ABOUT THE SWEARING-IN CEREMONIES
Benjamin Harrison was sworn-in as the 23rd President of the United States.
Levi P. Morton was sworn-in as the 22nd Vice President of the United States during a separate ceremony on March 2, 1889.
Location:
East Portico, U.S. Capitol
Washington, D.C.
Weather:
Rained all day. Total rainfall was 0.86 inches. Took oath of office in a downpour under an umbrella. Estimated noon temperature of 43°F.
Bible Used:
Bible provided by James H. McKenney, Clerk of the Supreme Court, opened to Psalm 121:1-6.
VICE PRESIDENTIAL OATH OF OFFICE
Administered to Levi P. Morton in the Senate Chamber at the close of the 50th Congress on March 2, 1889.
PRESIDENTIAL OATH OF OFFICE
Administered to Benjamin Harrison
by the Honorable Melville W. Fuller,
Chief Justice of the United States
INAUGURAL ADDRESS
“I will not attempt to note the marvelous and in great part happy contrasts between our country as it steps over the threshold into its second century of organized existence under the Constitution and that weak but wisely ordered young nation that looked undauntedly down the first century, when all its years stretched out before it.”
President Benjamin Harrison