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Outgoing president <a href="/wiki/Grover_Cleveland" title="Grover Cleveland">Grover Cleveland</a> stands to the right.</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Date</th><td class="infobox-data" style="text-align: left;">March 4, 1897<span class="noprint">; 127 years ago</span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">1897-03-04</span>)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Location</th><td class="infobox-data location" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/United_States_Capitol" title="United States Capitol">United States Capitol</a>,<br /><a href="/wiki/Washington,_D.C." title="Washington, D.C.">Washington, D.C.</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Participants</th><td class="infobox-data attendee" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/William_McKinley" title="William McKinley">William McKinley</a><br />25th president of the United States<br /><i>— Assuming office</i><br /><hr /><a href="/wiki/Melville_Fuller" title="Melville Fuller">Melville Fuller</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Chief_Justice_of_the_United_States" title="Chief Justice of the United States">Chief Justice of the United States</a><br /><i>— Administering oath</i><br /><hr /><a href="/wiki/Garret_Hobart" title="Garret Hobart">Garret Hobart</a><br />24th vice president of the United States<br /><i>— Assuming office</i><br /><hr /><a href="/wiki/Adlai_Stevenson_I" title="Adlai Stevenson I">Adlai Stevenson I</a><br />23rd vice president of the United States<br /><i>— Administering oath</i></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: #aaa 1px solid;"><div style="width:100%"><div style="float: left; text-align:left;padding-right:0.5em;" class="noprint">← <a href="/wiki/Second_inauguration_of_Grover_Cleveland" title="Second inauguration of Grover Cleveland">1893</a></div><div style="float: right; text-align:right;padding-left:0.5em;" class="noprint"><a 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href="/wiki/William_McKinley#Rising_politician_(1877–1895)" title="William McKinley">U.S Representative from Ohio</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/McKinley_Tariff" title="McKinley Tariff">McKinley Tariff</a></li></ul> <hr /> <div style="font-weight: bold;line-height:normal;">39th Governor of <a href="/wiki/Ohio" title="Ohio">Ohio</a></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_McKinley#Governor_of_Ohio_(1892–1896)" title="William McKinley">Governorship</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1891_Ohio_gubernatorial_election" title="1891 Ohio gubernatorial election">1891 gubernatorial election</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1893_Ohio_gubernatorial_election" title="1893 Ohio gubernatorial election">1893 gubernatorial election</a></li></ul></li></ul> <hr /> <div style="font-weight: bold;line-height:normal;">25th President of the United States</div> <div><a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_William_McKinley" title="Presidency of William McKinley">Presidency</a> (<a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_William_McKinley_presidency" title="Timeline of the William McKinley presidency">timeline</a>) </div> <hr /> <div style="font-weight: bold;line-height:normal;">First term</div> <ul><li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">First inauguration</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dingley_Act" title="Dingley Act">Dingley Tariff</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Industrial_Commission" title="Industrial Commission">Industrial Commission</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Army_beef_scandal" title="United States Army beef scandal">Army beef scandal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Teller_Amendment" title="Teller Amendment">Teller Amendment</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Newlands_Resolution" title="Newlands Resolution">Newlands Resolution</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spanish%E2%80%93American_War" title="Spanish–American War">Spanish–American War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philippine%E2%80%93American_War" title="Philippine–American War">Philippine–American War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hawaiian_Organic_Act" title="Hawaiian Organic 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election">election</a></li></ul></li></ul> <hr /> <div style="font-weight: bold;line-height:normal;">Legacy</div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_McKinley#Legacy_and_historical_image" title="William McKinley">Legacy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_McKinley_Presidential_Library_and_Museum" title="William McKinley Presidential Library and Museum">Presidential library</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/McKinley_Monument" title="McKinley Monument">McKinley Monument</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bibliography_of_William_McKinley" title="Bibliography of William McKinley">Bibliography</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fourth_Party_System" title="Fourth Party System">Fourth Party System</a></li></ul> <hr /> <div class="skin-invert-image"><span class="notpageimage" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/William_McKinley" title="William McKinley's signature"><img alt="William McKinley's signature" 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first, and eventually only full term of <a href="/wiki/William_McKinley" title="William McKinley">William McKinley</a> as president and the only term of <a href="/wiki/Garret_Hobart" title="Garret Hobart">Garret Hobart</a> as <a href="/wiki/Vice_President_of_the_United_States" title="Vice President of the United States">vice president</a>. <a href="/wiki/Chief_Justice_of_the_United_States" title="Chief Justice of the United States">Chief Justice</a> <a href="/wiki/Melville_Fuller" title="Melville Fuller">Melville Fuller</a> administered the <a href="/wiki/Oath_of_office_of_the_president_of_the_United_States" title="Oath of office of the president of the United States">presidential oath of office</a>. This was the first inauguration to be recorded on film,<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and was the last presidential inauguration to take place in the 19th century. Hobart died 2 years, 262 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 <a href="/wiki/Twenty-fifth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution" title="Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution">Twenty-fifth Amendment</a> in 1967. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Gallery">Gallery</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=First_inauguration_of_William_McKinley&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Gallery"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Harpers_weekly_1897.jpg" 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title="National McKinley Birthplace Memorial">National McKinley Birthplace Memorial</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/McKinley_Birthplace_Home_and_Research_Center" title="McKinley Birthplace Home and Research Center">McKinley Birthplace Home and Research Center</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_McKinley_Memorial" title="William McKinley Memorial">William McKinley Memorial</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/McKinley_Birthplace_Memorial_gold_dollar" title="McKinley Birthplace Memorial gold dollar">McKinley Birthplace Memorial gold dollar</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/William_McKinley_Monument" title="William McKinley Monument">William McKinley Monument</a></i></li> <li>Statues <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Statue_of_William_McKinley_(Canton,_Ohio)" title="Statue of William McKinley (Canton, Ohio)">Canton, Ohio</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Statue_of_William_McKinley_(Chicago)" title="Statue of William McKinley (Chicago)">Chicago</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" 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Harrison (1889)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_inauguration_of_Grover_Cleveland" title="Second inauguration of Grover Cleveland">Cleveland (1893)</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">McKinley (1897)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">20th century</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Second_inauguration_of_William_McKinley" title="Second inauguration of William McKinley">McKinley (1901)</a></li> <li><span style="background-color: #EEF;color:black;"><a href="/wiki/First_inauguration_of_Theodore_Roosevelt" title="First inauguration of Theodore Roosevelt">T. Roosevelt (1901)</a>*</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_inauguration_of_Theodore_Roosevelt" title="Second inauguration of Theodore Roosevelt">T. Roosevelt (1905)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Inauguration_of_William_Howard_Taft" title="Inauguration of William Howard Taft">Taft (1909)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/First_inauguration_of_Woodrow_Wilson" title="First inauguration of Woodrow Wilson">Wilson (1913)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_inauguration_of_Woodrow_Wilson" title="Second inauguration of Woodrow Wilson">Wilson (1917)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Inauguration_of_Warren_G._Harding" title="Inauguration of Warren G. Harding">Harding (1921)</a></li> <li><span style="background-color: #EEF;color:black;"><a href="/wiki/First_inauguration_of_Calvin_Coolidge" title="First inauguration of Calvin Coolidge">Coolidge (1923)</a>*</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_inauguration_of_Calvin_Coolidge" title="Second inauguration of Calvin Coolidge">Coolidge (1925)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Inauguration_of_Herbert_Hoover" title="Inauguration of Herbert Hoover">Hoover (1929)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/First_inauguration_of_Franklin_D._Roosevelt" title="First inauguration of Franklin D. Roosevelt">F. D. Roosevelt (1933)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_inauguration_of_Franklin_D._Roosevelt" title="Second inauguration of Franklin D. Roosevelt">F. D. Roosevelt (1937)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Third_inauguration_of_Franklin_D._Roosevelt" title="Third inauguration of Franklin D. Roosevelt">F. D. Roosevelt (1941)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fourth_inauguration_of_Franklin_D._Roosevelt" title="Fourth inauguration of Franklin D. Roosevelt">F. D. Roosevelt (1945)</a></li> <li><span style="background-color: #EEF;color:black;"><a href="/wiki/First_inauguration_of_Harry_S._Truman" title="First inauguration of Harry S. Truman">Truman (1945)</a>*</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_inauguration_of_Harry_S._Truman" title="Second inauguration of Harry S. Truman">Truman (1949)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/First_inauguration_of_Dwight_D._Eisenhower" title="First inauguration of Dwight D. Eisenhower">Eisenhower (1953)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_inauguration_of_Dwight_D._Eisenhower" title="Second inauguration of Dwight D. Eisenhower">Eisenhower (1957)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Inauguration_of_John_F._Kennedy" title="Inauguration of John F. Kennedy">Kennedy (1961)</a></li> <li><span style="background-color: #EEF;color:black;"><a href="/wiki/First_inauguration_of_Lyndon_B._Johnson" title="First inauguration of Lyndon B. Johnson">L. B. Johnson (1963)</a>*</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_inauguration_of_Lyndon_B._Johnson" title="Second inauguration of Lyndon B. Johnson">L. B. Johnson (1965)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/First_inauguration_of_Richard_Nixon" title="First inauguration of Richard Nixon">Nixon (1969)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_inauguration_of_Richard_Nixon" title="Second inauguration of Richard Nixon">Nixon (1973)</a></li> <li><span style="background-color: #EEF;color:black;"><a href="/wiki/Inauguration_of_Gerald_Ford" title="Inauguration of Gerald Ford">Ford (1974)</a>*</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Inauguration_of_Jimmy_Carter" title="Inauguration of Jimmy Carter">Carter (1977)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/First_inauguration_of_Ronald_Reagan" title="First inauguration of Ronald Reagan">Reagan (1981)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_inauguration_of_Ronald_Reagan" title="Second inauguration of Ronald Reagan">Reagan (1985)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Inauguration_of_George_H._W._Bush" title="Inauguration of George H. W. Bush">G. H. W. Bush (1989)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/First_inauguration_of_Bill_Clinton" title="First inauguration of Bill Clinton">Clinton (1993)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_inauguration_of_Bill_Clinton" title="Second inauguration of Bill Clinton">Clinton (1997)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">21st century</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/First_inauguration_of_George_W._Bush" title="First inauguration of George W. Bush">G. W. Bush (2001)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_inauguration_of_George_W._Bush" title="Second inauguration of George W. Bush">G. W. 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