Inauguration Day: Which president endured the coldest Inauguration Day?

The inauguration of Donald J. Trump on Monday, January 20th has been moved indoors because of extremely cold weather forecasted for Washington D.C.

While most inaugurations have been held outdoors, over the course of the history of the United States, this move by officials is not an unprecedented one, as others have been moved indoors, typically due to weather.

What we know:

Washington, D.C. will get inches of snow on Sunday. Then, it's sunny, windy, and cold on Inauguration Day, with temperatures in the low 20s.

The backstory:

This is not the first time presidential inaugurations have been held inside due to the weather. Ronald Regan's second inauguration in 1985 was held inside, because the temperature that day was 7 degrees at noon. That was the coldest inauguration on record according to the National Weather Service.

The inauguration for William H. Taft came on the heels of 10 inches of snow. As a result, that inauguration was moved inside.

Other inaugurations have had snow and even wintry mixes without being moved indoors.

Dig deeper:

Cold inauguration weather is attributed to the pneumonia that led to the death of President William Henry Harrison in 1841 and First Lady Abigail Fillmore in 1853. Both died within a month of the inauguration.

On January 20, 1961, President John F. Kennedy was faced with the very same winter weather conditions as Donald Trump, but officials then opted to hold Kennedy's inauguration outdoors. While most people around him opted to dress warmly, while Kennedy took the oath and made his famous speech, he did not wear a heavy outer coat or hat.

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