An Original Invitation to the Inauguration of President William McKinley and Vice President Theodore Roosevelt
McKinley's assassination would make Roosevelt president before the year was out
President William McKinley was inaugurated for a second time on March 4, 1901, on the East Portico of the U.S. Capitol. After Garret Hobart, McKinley’s vice president during his first term, had died in 1899, McKinley had carried on without one. Theodore Roosevelt would serve as McKinley’s vice president for only six...
President William McKinley was inaugurated for a second time on March 4, 1901, on the East Portico of the U.S. Capitol. After Garret Hobart, McKinley’s vice president during his first term, had died in 1899, McKinley had carried on without one. Theodore Roosevelt would serve as McKinley’s vice president for only six months, between March 4 and September 14, 1901.
Document, printed, an entrance ticket to the second inauguration ceremonies of McKinley and Roosevelt. “Inauguration of the President of the United States, March fourth Nineteen hundred and one”; accompanied by the names and facsimile signatures of members of the Committee of Arrangements at lower right. Intaglio engraved by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing but without imprint.
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