Table of Inaugural Addresses
Washington 1789 - Biden 2021
Included here as "Inaugural Addresses" are speeches made by elected presidents following a public ceremony in which they take the oath of office. "Accidental" presidents may also have given (or issued) a prominent address following taking office, but we do not classify those as Inaugural Addresses.
| President | Date | Words |
| George Washington | April 30, 1789 | 1431 |
| March 4, 1793 | 135 | |
| John Adams | 2321 | |
| Thomas Jefferson | March 4, 1801 | 1730 |
| March 4, 1805 | 2166 | |
| James Madison | 1177 | |
| March 4, 1813 | 1211 | |
| James Monroe | March 4, 1817 | 3375 |
| March 4, 1821 | 4472 | |
| John Quincy Adams | 2915 | |
| Andrew Jackson | March 4, 1829 | 1128 |
| March 4, 1833 | 1176 | |
| Martin van Buren | 3843 | |
| William Henry Harrison | March 4, 1841 | 8460 |
| John Tyler |
succeeded following Harrison's death |
|
| James K. Polk | March 4, 1845 | 4809 |
| Zachary Taylor | March 5, 1849 | 1090 |
| Millard Fillmore | succeeded following Taylor's death | |
| Franklin Pierce | 3336 | |
| James Buchanan | March 4, 1857 | 2831 |
| Abraham Lincoln | 3637 | |
| March 4, 1865 | 700 | |
| Andrew Johnson | succeeded following Lincoln's assassination | |
| Ulysses S. Grant | 1127 | |
| March 4, 1873 | 1339 | |
| Rutherford B. Hayes | March 5, 1877 | 2486 |
| James Garfield | March 4, 1881 | 2979 |
| Chester Arthur | succeeded following Garfield's assassination | |
| Grover Cleveland - I | 1686 | |
| Benjamin Harrison | March 4, 1889 | 4392 |
| Grover Cleveland - II | 2015 | |
| William McKinley | March 4, 1897 | 3968 |
| March 4, 1901 | 2218 | |
| Theodore Roosevelt | 984 | |
| William Howard Taft | March 4, 1909 | 5434 |
| Woodrow Wilson | 1704 | |
| March 4, 1917 | 1526 | |
| Warren G. Harding | March 4, 1921 | 3329 |
| Calvin Coolidge | March 4, 1925 | 4055 |
| Herbert Hoover | March 4, 1929 | 3672 |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | 1880 | |
| January 20, 1937 | 1808 | |
| January 20, 1941 | 1359 | |
| January 20, 1945 | 559 | |
| Harry S. Truman | January 20, 1949 | 2273 |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | 2459 | |
| January 21, 1957 | 1658 | |
| John F. Kennedy | January 20, 1961 | 1366 |
| Lyndon B. Johnson | 1507 | |
| Richard Nixon | January 20, 1969 | 2128 |
| January 20, 1973 | 1803 | |
| Gerald R. Ford |
succeeded following Nixon's resignation |
|
| Jimmy Carter | January 20, 1977 | 1229 |
| Ronald Reagan | 2427 | |
| January 21, 1985 | 2561 | |
| George Bush | January 20, 1989 | 2320 |
| William J. Clinton | 1598 | |
| January 20, 1997 | 2155 | |
| George W. Bush | January 20, 2001 | 1592 |
| January 20, 2005 | 2071 | |
| Barack Obama | 2395 | |
| January 21, 2013 | 2096 | |
| Donald J. Trump | January 20, 2017 | 1433 |
| Joseph R. Biden | January 20, 2021 | 2540 |
Citation: Gerhard Peters, "Table of Presidential Inaugural Addresses," The American Presidency Project. Santa Barbara, CA: University of California (hosted), Gerhard Peters (database), https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/324108