33RD INAUGURAL CEREMONIES
PRESIDENT
WOODROW
WILSON
March 5, 1917
VICE PRESIDENT
THOMAS R.
MARSHALL
March 5, 1917
INAUGURAL COMMITTEE
Sen. Lee S. Overman (D-NC), Chair
Sen. Hoke Smith (D-GA)
Sen. Francis E. Warren (R-WY)
Rep. William W. Rucker (D-MO)
Rep. Finis J. Garrett (D-TN)
Rep. William B. McKinley (R-IL)
ABOUT THE SWEARING-IN CEREMONIES
Woodrow Wilson was sworn-in for his second term as the 28th President of the United States, and Thomas R. Marshall was sworn-in for his second term as the 28th Vice President of the United States.
Location:
East Portico, U.S. Capitol
Washington, D.C.
Weather:
Partly cloudy and windy. Estimated noon temperature of 38°F.
Bible Used:
Same Bible used when he was sworn in as Governor of New Jersey, open to Psalm 119:43-46.
FACTS, FIRSTS, AND PRECEDENTS
First president to take the oath of office on Sunday. March 4, 1917 fell on a Sunday, so Wilson was sworn in privately on that day in the President’s Room in the U.S. Capitol by Chief Justice Edward D. White. His public Inauguration was held on Monday, March 5; Edith Bolling Galt Wilson was the premiere First Lady to accompany the President both to and from the Capitol; First time women participated in the Inaugural Parade.
VICE PRESIDENTIAL OATH OF OFFICE
Administered to Thomas R. Marshall in the Senate Chamber at the close of the 64th Congress.
VICE PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS
Delivered by Thomas R. Marshall in the Senate Chamber.
PRESIDENTIAL OATH OF OFFICE
Administered to Woodrow Wilson
by the Honorable Edward D. White,
Chief Justice of the United States.
INAUGURAL ADDRESS
“We are provincials no longer. The tragic events of the thirty months of vital turmoil through which we have just passed have made us citizens of the world. There can be no turning back. Our own fortunes as a nation are involved whether we would have it so or not. And yet we are not the less Americans on that account. We shall be the more American if we but remain true to the principles in which we have been bred.”
President Woodrow Wilson