Vice President-elect Andrew Johnson was drunk when he was sworn in during his inauguration. Before Abraham Lincoln took to the stage for his second inauguration in March 1865, there was the ...

John Quincy Adams pulling a no-show for Andrew Jackson's 1829 inauguration and the impeached Andrew Johnson failing to attend Ulysses S. Grant's 1869 inauguration. 35. This year will be just the ...

There can be but little doubt left in the minds of those who have attentively perused the details of the plot to assassinate the leaders of the government, that ANDREW JOHNSON, who has endured so ...

Three have: John Adams in 1801, John Quincy Adams in 1829 and Andrew Johnson in 1869. The first Adams left the capital early the morning of the inauguration, and never indicated why. The second ...

Most presidents give a public speech after being sworn in, known as the inaugural address. Only five did not: John Tyler, Millard Fillmore, Andrew Johnson, Chester Arthur and Gerald Ford.