Episode 1 of 1

Inauguration of Thomas Jefferson

Name: Inauguration of Thomas Jefferson
Start: 1801-03-04
Location: Capitol

When: March 4, 1801
Where: Capitol
Part of: Thomas Jefferson inaugurated third President of the United States

Thomas Jefferson was sworn in as the third President of the United States on March 4, 1801, at the Capitol in Washington, D.C.

Chief Justice John Marshall administered the oath at the new Capitol. This marked the start of Jefferson's first term and Aaron Burr's vice presidency, following the House's election of them on February 17, 1801.

Sources

First inauguration of Thomas Jefferson Wikipedia, revision of 2026-06-21
Thomas Jefferson Wikipedia, revision of 2026-09-30

Machine-drafted from the cited Wikipedia passages and checked by a reviewing model, not by a human editor. Every passage cites the revision it was written from; dates and places follow those passages.