Third inauguration of Franklin D. Roosevelt
The third inauguration of Franklin D. Roosevelt as President of the United States was held on Monday, January 20, 1941, at the East Portico of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. This was the 39th inauguration and marked the commencement of the third term of Franklin D. Roosevelt as President and the only term of Henry A. Wallace as Vice President. This was the first and only time a president has been inaugurated for a third term; after the Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified in 1951, no person can be elected president more than twice.
Chief Justice Charles Hughes administered the presidential oath of office to Roosevelt, who placed his hand upon the same family Bible used for his 1933 and 1937 inaugurations, open to I Corinthians 13, as he recited the oath. The outgoing Vice President John Nance Garner administered the vice-presidential oath to Wallace.
