What is Inauguration of Warren G. Harding?
[[File:USA inauguration 1921.jpg|right|200px|thumb|]] The '''inauguration of Warren G. Harding''' as the 29th [[president of the United States]] happened on March 4, 1921. It was the start of the only term of [[Warren G. Harding]] as [[President of the United States|president]] and the only term of [[Calvin Coolidge]] as [[Vice President of the United States|vice president]]. A public ceremony happened on the East Portico of the [[United States Capitol]] in [[Washington, D.C.]] The event was the 34th presidential [[United States presidential inauguration|inauguration.]] This was the first inauguration in which an automobile was used to transport the president-elect and the leaving president ([[Woodrow Wilson]]) to and from the Capitol. However, Wilson did not attend the ceremony himself because of a [[stroke]] he got two years before. [[Chief Justice of the United States|Chief Justice]] [[Edward D. White]] administered the oath of office to Harding. [[Thomas R. Marshall]] administered the vice presidential oath of office to Coolidge.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.inaugural.senate.gov/34th-inaugural-ceremonies/|title=The 34th Presidential Inauguration: Warren Harding, March 4, 1921|publisher=United States Senate|access-date=November 27, 2021}}</ref> Harding did not finish his term as president, as he died on August 2, 1923. Calvin Coolidge then became the next president. ==References== {{Reflist}} ==Other websites== {{wikisource|Warren Harding's Inaugural Address}} *[http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/harding.asp Text of Harding's Inaugural Address] {{US inaugurations}} {{multistub|history|US}} [[Category:1920s in the United States]] [[Category:Warren G. Harding]] [[Category:United States presidential inaugurations|Harding, Warren]] [[Category:March events]] [[Category:1921 in the United States]]