President-elect Donald Trump's will be sworn in under the Capitol Rotunda, rather than outside. But he's not the only president inaugurated in an unusual location.

The inauguration ceremony would move to Washington D.C. for ... if short — an “embittered attorney” passed over for a consular post shot President James A. Garfield at a Washington, D.C. railroad station. Garfield would not survive his injuries ...

By 1881, a joint resolution was passed as the city prepared for the inauguration of then-President-elect James A. Garfield. A Presidential Inaugural Committee was formed with a chairman appointed by the president-elect, and it authorized the War and Navy ...

The inauguration of a president, which occurred Monday in Washington, D.C., is about more than one person, or more than one presidential term. It is about a republic and her people, recommitting themselves to the principles of liberty and to the sacrifices necessary to ensure that liberty is not extinguished and to ensure that the

The image captured crowds of onlookers standing outside the East Portico of the U.S. Capitol—which was still under construction at the time. The foreground area was actually a stone yard that had been covered with boards and used as a platform for spectators.

The worst weather for an inaugural came in March 1909, when 10 inches of snow forced William H. Taft to move indoors to be sworn in.

Nearly 7,500 participants from 23 states will join the parade this year, the Trump-Vance Inaugural Committee has confirmed.

Garfield County Clerk Lorie Legere and her husband Jack were in Washington, D.C., Monday, Jan. 20, 2025, for the Donald Trump's inauguration as 47th president of the United States.

There was the time his administration insisted, without evidence, that his inauguration crowds were the largest ever ... merit-based ever since a disgruntled job seeker shot President Garfield in 1881, faces a potentially parlous future.

In the 1800s, the main job requirement for most federal employees was loyalty to the newly-elected president, who would fill the government bureaucracy with his supporters. But after a rejected office-seeker shot President James Garfield,

Elder Gary E. Stevenson and Elder Gerrit W. Gong of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles attended the second inauguration of President Donald Trump, continuing a long Church tradition.

Donald J. Trump made history on Jan. 20 when he became the first convicted felon to take the presidential oath of office. Speaking from the Capitol in Washington—the same building that was infamously attacked by a howling mob of his supporters on Jan.