President Date (click for text and video/audio)  Words George Washington April 30, 1789 1431 March 4, 1793 135 John Adams March 4, 1797 2321 Thomas Jefferson March 4, 1801 1730 March 4, 1805 2166 James Madison March 4, 1809 1177 March 4, 1813 1211 James Monroe March 4, 1817 3375 March 4, 1821 4472 John Quincy Adams March 4, 1825 2915 Andrew Jackson March 4, 1829 1128 March 4, 1833 1176 Martin van Buren March 4, 1837 3843 William Henry Harrison March 4, 1841 8460 John Tyler succeeded following Harrison's death James K. Polk March 4, 1845 4809 Zachary Taylor March 5, 1849 1090 Millard Fillmore succeeded following Taylor's death Franklin Pierce March 4, 1853 3336 James Buchanan March 4, 1857 2831 Abraham Lincoln March 4, 1861 3637   March 4, 1865 700 Andrew Johnson succeeded following Lincoln's assassination Ulysses S. Grant March 4, 1869 1127 March 4, 1873 1339 Rutherford B. Hayes March 5, 1877 2486 James Garfield March 4, 1881 2979 Chester Arthur succeeded following Garfield's assassination Grover Cleveland - I March 4, 1885 1686 Benjamin Harrison March 4, 1889 4392 Grover Cleveland - II March 4, 1893 2015 William McKinley March 4, 1897 3968   March 4, 1901 2218 Theodore Roosevelt March 4, 1905 984 William Howard Taft March 4, 1909 5434 Woodrow Wilson March 4, 1913 1704 March 4, 1917 1526 Warren G. Harding March 4, 1921 3329 Calvin Coolidge March 4, 1925 4055 Herbert Hoover March 4, 1929 3672 Franklin D. Roosevelt March 4, 1933 1880 January 20, 1937 1808 January 20, 1941 1359 January 20, 1945 559 Harry S. Truman January 20, 1949 2273 Dwight D. Eisenhower January 20, 1953 2459 January 21, 1957 1658 John F. Kennedy January 20, 1961 1366 Lyndon B. Johnson January 20, 1965 1507 Richard Nixon January 20, 1969 2128 January 20, 1973 1803 Gerald R. Ford succeeded following Nixon's resignation Jimmy Carter January 20, 1977 1229 Ronald Reagan January 20, 1981 2427   January 21, 1985 2561 George Bush January 20, 1989 2320 William J. Clinton January 20, 1993 1598   January 20, 1997 2155 George W. Bush January 20, 2001 1592   January 20, 2005 2071 Barack Obama January 20, 2009 2395   January 21, 2013 2096

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Data by Gerhard Peters

Citation: Gerhard Peters,The American Presidency Project [online]. Santa Barbara, CA: University of California (hosted), Gerhard Peters (database). Available from World Wide Web: http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/inaugurals_words.php.