President Andrew Jackson had some 20,000 of his supporters attend a celebration around the White House following his first inauguration in 1829. The mob quickly grew rowdy, however, with fights ...

At Andrew Jackson’s inauguration, the celebratory crowd got a bit too rowdy. In 1829, around 10,000 people came to Washington, D.C., to celebrate the first inauguration of Andrew Jackson.

Aides spent months drafting executive orders that allowed Trump to rapidly set the political agenda, leaving his many enemies ...

Trump has shown an affinity with many of the little guys — what he called in 2017 "the forgotten men and women." But he also ...

While official weather records were not kept until 1873, Andrew Jackson’s first inauguration in 1829 is thought to be the warmest Inauguration Day ever at a balmy 57 degrees. James Monroe’s ...

This morning, I read President Thomas Jefferson’s first and second inaugural addresses (1801, 1805), President Andrew Jackson’s first inaugural (1829) and President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s ...

The first Adams left the capital early the morning of the inauguration, and never indicated why. The second Adams, his son, did not invited his successor, Andrew Jackson, to the White House ...

Monday, Jan. 20, 2025 will be an amazing, historic inaugural of the new president ... Not since populist President Andrew Jackson entered office in 1829 with a plan to replace the Bank of the ...