 |
Presidential Inaugural Addresses:
Length and Date of Speech| President | Number of words | Date of speech |
|---|
| Washington | 1,425 (first)
135 (second) | April 30, 1789
March 4, 1793 | | J. Adams | 2,308 | March 4, 1797 | | Jefferson | 1,729 (first)
2,158 (second) | March 4, 1801
March 4, 1805 | | Madison | 1,175 (first)
1,209 (second) | March 4, 1809
March 4, 1813 | | Monroe | 3,217 (first)
4,467 (second) | March 4, 1817
March 5, 1821 | | J. Q. Adams | 2,906 | March 5, 1825 | | Jackson | 1,125 (first)
1,172 (second) | March 4, 1829
March 5, 1833 | | Van Buren | 3,838 | March 4, 1837 | | W. H. Harrison | 8,445 | March 4, 1841 | | Polk | 4,776 | March 4, 1845 | | Taylor | 996 | March 5, 1849 | | Pierce | 3,319 | March 4, 1853 | | Buchanan | 2,821 | March 4, 1857 | | Lincoln | 3,634 (first)
698 (second) | March 4, 1861
March 4, 1865 | | Grant | 1,128 (first)
1,337 (second) | March 4, 1869
March 4, 1873 | | Hayes | 2,480 | March 5, 1877 | | Garfield | 2,978 | March 4, 1881 | | Cleveland | 1,681 (first) | March 4, 1885 | | B. Harrison | 4,388 | March 4, 1889 | | Cleveland | 2,015 (second) | March 4, 1893 | | McKinley | 3,967 (first)
2,217 (second) | March 4, 1897
March 4, 1901 | | T. Roosevelt | 985 | March 4, 1905 | | Taft | 5,433 | March 4, 1909 | | Wilson | 1,802 (first)
1,526 (second) | March 4, 1913
March 5, 1917 | | Harding | 3,318 | March 4, 1921 | | Coolidge | 4,059 | March 4, 1925 | | Hoover | 3,801 | March 4, 1929 | | F. D. Roosevelt | 1,883 (first)
1,807 (second)
1,340 (third)
559 (fourth) | March 4, 1933
Jan. 20, 1937
Jan. 20, 1941
Jan. 20, 1945 | | Truman | 2,242 | Jan. 20, 1949 | | Eisenhower | 2,446 (first)
2,449 (second) | Jan. 20, 1953
Jan. 21, 1957 | | Kennedy | 1,355 | Jan. 20, 1961 | | L. B. Johnson | 1,437 | Jan. 20, 1965 | | Nixon | 2,130 (first)
1,668 (second) | Jan. 20, 1969
Jan. 20, 1973 | | Carter | 1,087 | Jan. 20, 1977 | | Reagan | 2,463 (first)
2,546 (second) | Jan. 20, 1981
Jan. 21, 1985 | | G. H. W. Bush | 2,283 | Jan. 20, 1989 | | Clinton | 1,507 (first)
2,170 (second) | Jan. 20, 1993
Jan. 20, 1997 | | G.W. Bush | 1,571 (first) | Jan. 20, 2001 |
Source: Facts About the Presidents, Joseph Nathan Kane (New York, H. W. Wilson, 1993).
Information Please® Database, © 2007 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. More on Presidential Inaugural Addresses Length and Date of Speech from Infoplease:
Warning: DOMDocument::loadXML(): Start tag expected, '<' not found in Entity, line: 1 in /site/html/include/elibrary_search_box.php on line 109
|
|
