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Arthur Sworn In After Garfield Assassinated

1881

Upon the death of President James Garfield, Vice President Chester Arthur receives a group at his home in New York City to take the oath of office, administered by New York Supreme Court Judge John R. Brady. The next day he again takes the oath, this time administered by Chief Justice Morrison Waite, in the Vice President’s Office in the Capitol in Washington, D.C.