The first inauguration of Grover Cleveland as the 22nd

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took place on Wednesday, March 4, 1885, at the East Portico of the

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This was the 25th inauguration and marked the commencement of the first four-year term of

Grover Cleveland Stephen Grover Cleveland (March 18, 1837June 24, 1908) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 22nd and 24th president of the United States from 1885 to 1889 and from 1893 to 1897. Cleveland is the only president in American ...

as president and the only term of

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. Hendricks died days into this term, and the office remained vacant since there was no constitutional provision which allow an intra-term vice-presidential office filling; it would be regulated by the Twenty-fifth Amendment in 1967. Chief Justice

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administered the presidential oath of office, and Cleveland held a Bible given to him at age 15 by his mother as he recited it. Cleveland's second inauguration took place eight years after the first, as his two terms in office were not consecutive. He is the only U.S. president to serve non-consecutive terms.

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Text of Cleveland's First Inaugural Address
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