First inauguration of Grover Cleveland

First Presidential Inauguration of Grover Cleveland

Cleveland delivering his inaugural address
Date	March 4, 1885 (1885-03-04)
Location	United States Capitol, Washington, D.C.
Participants	Stephen Grover Cleveland 22nd President of the United States — Assuming office Morrison Remick Waite Chief Justice of the United States — Administering oath Thomas Andrews Hendricks 21st Vice President of the United States — Assuming office George Franklin Edmunds President pro tempore of the United States Senate — Administering oath

The first inauguration of Grover Cleveland as the 22nd President of the United States was held on Wednesday, March 4, 1885, at the East Portico of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. This was the 25th inauguration and marked the commencement of the first four-year term of Grover Cleveland as President and the only term of Thomas A. Hendricks as Vice President. Hendricks died 266 days into this term, and the office remained vacant since there was no constitutional provision which allow an intra-term vice-presidential office filling; it would be regulated by the Twenty-fifth Amendment in 1967.

Chief Justice Morrison Waite administered the presidential oath of office, and Cleveland held a Bible given to him at age 15 by his mother as he recited it. Cleveland's second inauguration took place eight years after the first, as his two terms in office were not consecutive. He is the only U.S. president to serve non-consecutive terms.

See also

• Presidency of Grover Cleveland
• Second inauguration of Grover Cleveland
• 1884 United States presidential election

External links

• Text of Cleveland's First Inaugural Address