Donald Trump will become the 47th President on Monday. However, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Franklin D. Roosevelt stand out as America's greatest leaders in its 250-year history.

Washington, D.C., wasn ... at Fort George rang out in a military salute. Later, church bells tolled throughout the city for half an hour. Shortly before the inauguration began, the president-elect traveled from his temporary lodging at Franklin House ...

1789 — A presidential inauguration has taken place every four years since George Washington took the oath of office in New York City in 1789. He established the tradition for a two term limit and Thomas Jefferson institutionalized it. This tradition was followed by subsequent presidents until President Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected four times.

As a result, Washington would be the only president sworn into office outside of Washington, D.C. At sunrise that morning, cannons at Fort George rang ... lodging at Franklin House — which ...

Which president had the longest inaugural address? Which has been sworn in the most? Which ended the ceremony’s top-hat tradition? Here are some tidbits you might not know about Inauguration Day.

Donald Trump will be only the second U.S. president after Grover Cleveland to serve two nonconsecutive terms after he takes the oath of office Monday.

Or Ronald Reagan 20 years later relocating the ceremony for the first time from the East Front of the U.S. Capitol to the magnificent West Front facing the National Mall and the Washington ... presidency would mean. Franklin D. Roosevelt making his ...

The first executive order was passed by the first president, George Washington ... led by Theodore Roosevelt (1,081 orders) and Woodrow Wilson (1,803) during World War I. Franklin D Roosevelt ...

Donald Trump enters his second presidency, as he did his first, pledging to wield executive power in novel and aggressive ways. This is neither new nor necessarily bad. “Presidents who go down in the history books as ‘great’ are those who reach for power, who assert their authority to the limit,” the presidential scholar Richard Pious noted.

The first inaugurations in U.S. history didn't happen in Washington, D.C. President George Washington ... The inauguration was held in March until Franklin Delano Roosevelt's second inauguration ...

William E. Leuchtenburg, a prize-winning historian widely admired for his authoritative writings on the U.S. presidency and as the reigning scholar on Franklin Roosevelt and the

President Franklin D. Roosevelt redesigned and moved the ... The oval shape dates back to President George Washington's practice of holding levees, formal greeting receptions inspired by English ...