Chief Justice of the United States: Difference between revisions

*[[John Calvin Coolidge Sr.]], [[Calvin Coolidge]]'s father, a notary public, administered the oath to his son after the death of Warren Harding.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.historicvermont.org/coolidge/oathrm.html |title=Excerpt from Coolidge's autobiography |publisher=Historicvermont.org |access-date=May 15, 2010 |archive-date=December 31, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171231212110/http://www.historicvermont.org/coolidge/oathrm.html |url-status=live }}</ref> This, however, was contested upon Coolidge's return to Washington, and his oath was re-administered by Judge [[Adolph A. Hoehling, Jr.]] of the [[United States District Court for the District of Columbia]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2000/winter/abrupt-transition-1.html |title=Prologue: Selected Articles |publisher=Archives.gov |access-date=May 15, 2010 |archive-date=April 1, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110401003427/http://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2000/winter/abrupt-transition-1.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

*[[John Tyler]] and [[Millard Fillmore]] were both sworn in on the death of their predecessors by Chief Judge [[William Cranch]] of the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://inaugural.senate.gov/history/daysevents/potusswearingin05.cfm |title=Presidential Swearing-In Ceremony, Part 5 of 6 |publisher=Inaugural.senate.gov |access-date=August 17, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110203094226/http://inaugural.senate.gov/history/daysevents/potusswearingin05.cfm |archive-date=February 3, 2011 }}</ref>

*On November 22, 1963, after the [[Assassination of John F. Kennedy|assassination of]] President [[John F. Kennedy]], Judge [[Sarah T. Hughes]], a federal district court judge of the [[United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas]], administered the oath to Lyndon B. Johnson aboard [[Air Force One]].

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| 53rd<br />[[United States Secretary of the Treasury|United States Secretary<br />of the Treasury]]<br />(1945–1946)

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| Judge of the<br />[[United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit|United States Court of Appeals<br />for the District of Columbia Circuit]]<br />(2003–2005)

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