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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)
2,073 (second)
|
Jan. 20, 2001
Jan. 20, 2005
|
| Obama
|
2,406
|
Jan. 20, 2009
|
Source: Facts About the Presidents, Joseph Nathan Kane (New York, H. W. Wilson, 1993).
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