Welcome to Word of the Inaugural Address
This unique gallery presents the inaugural addresses of the Presidents of the United States. Along with each speech is a word cloud image which encompasses the key ideas and the agenda of the address, the bigger the word the more frequent its use. To find your way around just click on one of dates below to navigate to an inaugural address or go through them one by one using the numbers above)
- George Washington - 1789, 1793
- John Adams - 1797
- Thomas Jefferson - 1801, 1805
- James Madison - 1809, 1813
- James Monroe - 1817, 1821
- John Quincy Adams - 1825
- Andrew Jackson - 1829, 1833
- Martin Van Buren - 1837
- William Henry Harrison - 1841
- James Knox Polk - 1845
- Zachary Taylor - 1849
- Franklin Pierce - 1853
- James Buchanan- 1857
- Abraham Lincoln - 1861, 1865
- Ulysses S. Grant - 1869, 1873
- Rutherford B. Hayes - 1877
- James A. Garfield - 1881
- Grover Cleveland - 1885, 1893
- Benjamin Harrison - 1889
- William McKinley - 1897, 1901
- Theodore Roosevelt - 1905
- William Howard Taft - 1909
- Woodrow Wilson - 1913, 1917
- Warren G. Harding - 1921
- Calvin Coolidge - 1925
- Herbert Hoover - 1929
- Franklin D. Roosevelt - 1933, 1937, 1941, 1945
- Harry S. Truman - 1949
- Dwight D. Eisenhower - 1953, 1957
- John F. Kennedy - 1961
- Lyndon Baines Johnson - 1965
- Richard Milhous Nixon - 1969, 1973
- Jimmy Carter - 1977
- Ronald Reagan - 1981, 1985
- George Bush - 1989
- William J. Clinton - 1993, 1997
- George W. Bush – 2001, 2005
- Barack Obama- 2009







