Looking for some added facts about Inaugurations? We ve got plenty!
How often have we had a president refuse to attend his successor s inauguration? Four times. The nation s second president,
John Adams, was on his way home to Quincy, Massachusetts when
Thomas Jefferson took the oath of office in 1801. While no one knew why, the rumor was that Adams simply hadn’t been invited. In 1829, when
Andrew Jackson became our seventh president,
John Quincy Adams was in town, but their bitter rivalry saw him sitting the ceremonies out.
Martin Van Buren wasn’t present for the 1841 inauguration of
William Henry Harrison– no reason has ever been established. The last time it happened on purpose was in 1869. While
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