Modern Era · North America · Politics
1923
Harding dies, Coolidge sworn in by oil lamp
August 2, 1923
President Warren Harding died suddenly in a San Francisco hotel while on a speaking tour; rumors of poisoning by his wife still circulate. Calvin Coolidge was sworn in as president by his father, a Vermont notary, by the light of a kerosene lamp in a farmhouse. It was the last inauguration of a president in a private home.
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