At his first inauguration in 2017, Trump used the Lincoln Bible (in a protective box) as well as a family Bible given to him by his mother in 1955, two days before his ninth birthday. Today ...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) - Vice President-elect JD Vance will be sworn in on a family Bible that belonged to his maternal great-grandmother from eastern Kentucky. Hattie Hounshell was born on May 6 ...

But doing so is not a requirement. The reason Mr. Trump did not place his hand on either of the Bibles Mrs. Trump was holding — a family Bible and a Bible used by Abraham Lincoln — was not ...

PARRIS ISLAND, S.C. — A Bible that traveled with the next Vice President of the United States through his earliest days as a Marine at Parris Island will reappear at Monday's inauguration ceremony.

Anna Cassell, 94, of Spartanburg, passed away on February 9, surrounded by her loving family. Anna was born in 1930 in Somerset, Kentucky, the daughter of the late Luther Dot Shadoan and Clarine ...

The commander-in-chief’s wife First Lady Melania Trump stood by his side as he recited the oath with both a family Bible and the Lincoln Bible stacked on top of one another. Rather than place ...

The Lincoln Bible was provided during Lincoln’s 1861 inauguration by William Thomas Carroll, clerk of the Supreme Court. That’s because Lincoln’s family Bible was still packed and on its way ...

Vice President JD Vance placed his hand on a Bible when he took the oath of office on Monday. He used a family Bible that belonged to his maternal great-grandmother, according to Trump's inaugural ...

The Bible is a King James Version published by Thomas Nelson and Sons.President Donald Trump also had a family Bible present, but he did not put his hand on the Bible during his swearing-in.

Obama, in fact, twice used the Lincoln Bible — a burgundy, velvet-bound book that was serendipitously used in the 16th president’s inauguration because his “family Bible was packed with ...

Meanwhile, newly sworn-in Vice President JD Vance used a family Bible that belonged to his maternal great-grandmother, which had been given to him in 2003 on the day he left home for the Marine ...

Calvin Coolidge, in his 1929 autobiography, also claims he didn’t use his family Bible when he was sworn in at his family’s Vermont home in the wake of Warren G. Harding’s death.