United States Congress Joint Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies

A Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies is a special committee formed every four years to manage presidential inaugurations. A committee has been formed every four years since at least the 1901 inaugurations of President William McKinley and Vice President Theodore Roosevelt.[1]

Membership

The members are sitting members of the United States Senate and House of Representatives. Typically, the House members include the Speaker of the House as well as the House majority and minority leaders. The Senate members are drawn from the leadership of the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration (previously known by other names). A senator acts as Chairman of the Joint Committee; the chairman is therefore drawn from the party in control of the Senate, which may or may not be the same party as the president-elect's. Membership in the committee gives its members the opportunity to control tickets to the inauguration ceremonies.

2017 inaugural

Congress officially created the committee on February 3, 2016 by adopting S.Con.Res. 28

Its full composition is as follows:[2]

Majority Minority
Senate members
House members

Current and previous committees

Logo used in 2005

1901 Inaugural of William McKinley (Republican)

1905 Inaugural of Theodore Roosevelt (Republican)

1909 Inaugural of William H. Taft (Republican)

1913 Inaugural of Woodrow Wilson (Democratic)

1917 Inaugural of Woodrow Wilson (Democratic)

1921 Inaugural of Warren G. Harding (Republican)

1925 Inaugural of Calvin Coolidge (Republican)

1929 Inaugural of Herbert Hoover (Republican)

1933 Inaugural of Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democratic)

1937 Inaugural of Franklin Roosevelt (Democratic)

1941 Inaugural of Franklin Roosevelt (Democratic)

1945 Inaugural of Franklin Roosevelt (Democratic)

1949 Inaugural of Harry Truman (Democratic)

1953 Inaugural of Dwight D. Eisenhower (Republican)

1957 Inaugural of Dwight D. Eisenhower (Republican)

1961 Inaugural of John F. Kennedy (Democratic)

1965 Inaugural of Lyndon Johnson (Democratic)

1969 Inaugural of Richard Nixon (Republican)

1973 Inaugural of Richard Nixon (Republican)

1977 Inaugural of Jimmy Carter (Democratic)

1981 Inaugural of Ronald Reagan (Republican)

1985 Inaugural of Ronald Reagan (Republican)

1989 Inaugural of George H. W. Bush (Republican)

1993 Inaugural of Bill Clinton (Democratic)

1997 Inaugural of Bill Clinton (Democratic)

2001 Inaugural of George W. Bush (Republican)

2005 Inaugural of George W. Bush (Republican)

2009 Inaugural of Barack Obama (Democratic)

2013 Inaugural of Barack Obama (Democratic)

2017 Inaugural of Donald Trump (Republican)

See also

References

  1. ↑ Previous members, listed at the committee's website. (Listing as sources the Congressional Record and inaugural programs, invitations, and other documents available in the Office of the Architect of the Capitol.)
  2. ↑ "About The Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies". The Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies. Retrieved November 2, 2016.
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