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English: This map shows the locations where all US presidencies under the current Constitution started and ended. Inset at the bottom of the map is a crop from Article 2 where the oath of office is specified (see full page). Of these 44 presidencies, all but nine had normal transitions happening at the completion of the term (whether a single term, or multiple after re-election). The locations for these normal transitions are marked with a green dot for where the oath of office was first taken, and a red dot for where the outgoing president stepped down. In all of these normal transitions, both the outgoing and incoming presidents where co-located in the same city, with the exceptions of John Adams who had left DC for his home on the night before Jefferson was inaugurated, and the asterisk placed by Washington DC is for the three other cases where the outgoing president chose to not attend the inauguration. These were John Quincy Adams, Andrew Johnson and Woodrow Wilson. (The best references found by this map's author indicate a significant probability that all three were within the city of Washington DC at the time of their successor's inauguration, but better sources may come to light, at which time a correction of this map will need to be considered). For the nine cases where transition happened prior to the completion of term, these sets of names are shown in black and numbered chronologically, '1' through '9' (see chronological listing below). The locations where these presidencies were exited are marked with a red 'X', and the places where the oath was taken are marked with a green 'O'. Four of these nine were due to death by illness. Another four were due to assassination (names underlined in grey), and one was a resignation (noted by a superscript 'R'). In each of these cases, the vice president filled the vacancy by completing the term after taking the oath to become president. And of these nine, all but four had the new president taking the oath in the same city where the prior presidency was exited. The four non-colocated situations were Arthur after Garfield, Coolidge after Harding (with the latter involving much more distance between the pair), Truman after FDR, and Nixon being on-board Air Force One heading home to California at the moment when Ford was sworn in (see newspaper reference below). For the starts of presidencies, all presidents took the oath in Washington DC, with these following six exceptions: -1789: George Washington in New York City, New York (when the nation's capital was located there), For presidencies ending, the collective term used is "exits". This refers to normal stepping down as well as death (due to illness or assassination) and also for resignation. All exited their presidencies in Washington DC, with the following eight exceptions (*): -1797: Washington (normal transition in Philadelphia, the nation's capital at that time), Of the four presidents that were assassinated (names are underlined in grey), Abraham Lincoln was killed in Washington DC. Of the four that died of illness while in office, William Henry Harrison and Zachary Taylor died in Washington DC, while Franklin Roosevelt died at the Little White House in Warm Springs, Georgia. The one president who resigned, Richard Nixon (name marked with an 'R'), did so with Nixon resigning in Washington DC and flying home toward California on Air Force One at the moment that Ford took the oath. The Air Force One airplane symbol appears a second time on the map because Lyndon Johnson took the oath onboard Air Force One (2:38 pm CST, November 22, 1963) while it was on the ground at Love Field in Dallas, and then flew to arrive back in Washington DC (~6:00 pm EST). Chronologically, the sequence is (with the 9 incomplete-term transitions numbered): Of the eight presidents who died in office, it has been noted that seven of these follow a pattern of presidencies occurring at a 20-year interval. See Curse of Tippecanoe. The first three deaths in office happened to presidencies at 10-year intervals. (This image was created using GIMP, with minor edits in MS Paint.) |
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Map source: File:US map - rivers and lakes.png, Inset source: File:Constitution of the United States, page 3.jpg |
Author | ChrisnHouston |
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current | 02:49, 16 June 2014 | 1,572 × 1,285 (794 KB) | ChrisnHouston (talk | contribs) | Correction to FDR's place of death being at the "Little White House" in Warm Springs, Georgia, as noted by Hoshie. | |
04:46, 19 December 2013 | 1,572 × 1,285 (790 KB) | ChrisnHouston (talk | contribs) | The 'R' to indicate Nixon's exit was due to resignation had inadvertently been erased. Now restored. | ||
02:51, 19 December 2013 | 1,572 × 1,285 (870 KB) | ChrisnHouston (talk | contribs) | Corrections required for accuracy, with role of Air Force One shown twice. Nixon was flying over central Missouri at the time of Ford's swearing in. John Adams had also left DC the night before Jefferson's swearing in. | ||
03:07, 25 November 2013 | 1,572 × 1,285 (780 KB) | ChrisnHouston (talk | contribs) | Sequentially numbering 1-9 the pairs of names for the incomplete-term transitions so as to help with ordering the history of these events. | ||
19:07, 22 November 2013 | 1,572 × 1,285 (859 KB) | ChrisnHouston (talk | contribs) | Underlined presidents who had been assassinated. Nixon also marked with 'R' to indicate resignation. | ||
18:34, 22 November 2013 | 1,572 × 1,285 (777 KB) | ChrisnHouston (talk | contribs) | User created page with UploadWizard |
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