President Wilson, VP Marshall publicly sworn in for second terms 100 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Mar 5 1917)


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(Monday, March 5, 1917, at about 12:30 p.m. EST) — President Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey and Vice President Thomas R. Marshall of Indiana were publicly inaugurated today for second terms of office at the east portico of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C., with Chief Justice Edward D. White administering oath of office (to Wilson).

The public ceremony was delayed until today because the traditional inauguration day of March 4 had fallen on a Sunday. Wilson was privately sworn-in Mar. 4, 1917, in his official room in the Capitol, just back of the Senate Chamber.

Wilson and Marshall, Democrats, had defeated the Republican ticket of Charles E. Hughes-Charles W. Fairbanks in the November 1916 general election.


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