WINTER CHILL AN INAUGURAL TRADITION Frigid weather has featured at many ... During the second swearing-in ceremony for President Ulysses S. Grant on March 4, 1873, several cadets and midshipmen ...

Woodrow Wilson’s first inauguration in 1913 was the warmest with a noon temperature of 55 degrees. Ulysses S. Grant’s second inauguration in 1873 was the coldest at 16 degrees, with a wind ...

While the presidential inauguration dates back to 1789, official weather records for Washington, D.C. go as far back as Ulysses S. Grant’s second inauguration in 1873. That still gives us ...

Coldest inauguration: Ronald Reagan's in 1985 at 7 degrees. Coldest March 4 inauguration was Ulysses S. Grant's in 1873 at 4 ...