Abraham Lincoln takes the oath as the sixteenth President of the United States at the U.S. Capitol

Just after one o'clock in the afternoon of a cloudy and raw day in Washington D.C., James Buchanan and Abraham Lincoln entered the U.S. Senate Chamber arm in arm. From there, the proceedings moved to the central portico of the U.S. Capitol where Abraham Lincoln delivered his first inaugural address.  He was then sworn in as the sixteenth President of the United States. (By John Osborne)
Source Citation
Congressional Globe, Senate, 37th Congress, 4th Session (1861)
Date Certainty
Exact
Type
Lawmaking/Litigating
Relevance
Major
Election of 1860
Washington, DC
United States Capitol, Washington DC
Date
Fayetteville (NC) Observer, “Folly,” July 25, 1859
David Wilmot to Abraham Lincoln, October 20, 1860
Abraham Lincoln's Remarks at Rochester, Pennsylvania, February 14, 1861
New York Times, “The Plot Against Mr. Lincoln’s Life,” March 4, 1861
Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861, Washington, DC
New York Times, “Reception of the Inaugural,” March 5, 1861
Cleveland (OH) Herald, “The President’s Inaugural,” March 5, 1861
Fayetteville (NC) Observer, "The Inaugural Address," March 7, 1861
Chicago (IL) Tribune, “A Scurvy Trick,” March 11, 1861
Fayetteville (NC) Observer, “Abolitionists and Secessionists,” March 14, 1861
New York Times, “About Fort Sumpter [Sumter],” March 18, 1861
(Montpelier) Vermont Patriot, “The Policy of the Administration,” March 30, 1861
New York Herald, “Old Abe’s Backbone,” April 7, 1861
Cleveland (OH) Herald, “A Submissionist Answered,” June 17, 1861
Abraham Lincoln to Albert G. Hodges, April 4, 1864
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