Who is the only president to have been sworn into office by their father?
In 1923, following the death of president Warren Harding, vice-president Calvin Coolidge was sworn in as president. At the time, he was visiting his father at a cottage in rural Vermont, without any electricity or running water. In the early hours of Aug. 3, a courier arrived at the cottage to deliver the news of president Harding’s death. At 2:47 a.m., amidst the flicker of a kerosene lamp, Coolidge’s father — Colonel John Calvin Coolidge, a local justice of the peace — administered the oath of office to his son. Why does the Chief Justice administer the oath of office to the president? Although there is no written law requiring the Chief Justice of the United States to administer the oath of office to the president, this has evolved into custom. How has Inauguration Day attire changed since 1789? According to historian Willard Randall, it has remained relatively the same: simple and understated. At George Washington’s inauguration, he wore a plain brown velvet suit made in the United
