 | Questions and answers - 1885 - 580 pages
...died Sept, 3, 1658. NB WEBSTER. OATH ADMINISTERED TO WASHINGTON. (p. 544, A.) Robert R. Livingston, Chancellor of the State of New York, administered the oath of office to General Washington, at Federal Hall, in Wall Street, New York, on the site of -the present Custom House,... | |
 | 1886 - 376 pages
...law phrase has been used as applying to the Court of Appeal. cw M. No. 53. — Robert R. Livingston, Chancellor of the State of New York, administered the oath of office taken by Washington on first assuming the duties of President, April 30, 1789. CWM No. 54. — In Shakespeare's... | |
 | Joseph West Moore - 1887 - 320 pages
...to whom Washington familiarly applied the sobriquet of" Brother Jonathan"; and Roger Sherman, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. New...governor ; and Pennsylvania by a statue of Robert Fulton and Muhlenberg, the heroic Revolutionary Minister ; Ohio by a statue of Garfield, and one of Governor... | |
 | Moses King - New York (N.Y.) - 1892 - 938 pages
...the gallery overlooking Wall Street, which was packed with vast and silent crowds, Livingston, the chancellor of the State of New York, administered the oath of office to the first President of the United States, April 30, 1789. Fora year thereafter New York was the capital... | |
 | Moses King - New York (N.Y.) - 1893 - 1020 pages
...the gallery overlooking Wall Street, which was packed with vast and silent crowds, Livingston, the chancellor of the State of New York, administered the oath of office to the first President of the United States, April 30, 1789. For a year thereafter New York was the capital... | |
 | James Grant Wilson, John Fiske, Charles Dick, James Edward Homans, John William Fay, Herbert M. Linen - United States - 1900 - 928 pages
...R. Livingston, one of the committee of five which drafted the Constitution of the United States and who, as chancellor of the State of New York, administered the oath of office to Washington on his first inauguration as President. His father, the Rev. John Ingersoll, was an orthodox... | |
 | Columbia University - Universities and colleges - 1904 - 616 pages
...Magnetism. 1789 On the 30th of April, 1789, the Hon. Robert R. Livingston, class of '65, King's College, Chancellor of the State of New York, administered the oath of office to, and proclaimed, George Washington President of the United States of America. The spot on which this... | |
 | Herman Eugene Kittredge - 1915 - 646 pages
...and Robert R. Livingston, who was one of the committee of five appointed to draft that document, and who, as chancellor of the State of New York, administered the oath to Washington as the first president of the United States. If Robert G. Ingersoll resembled any of... | |
 | Marie Louise Herdman - United States - 1916 - 556 pages
...Behind him were gathered many of the ablest and most prominent men of America. Robert R. Livingston, Chancellor of the State of New York, administered the oath of office and "ON THE 30TII OF APRIL. WASHINGTON TOOK A SOLEMN OATH TO SVPPORT THE CONSTITUTION OF HIS BELOVED... | |
 | Edward Channing - United States - 1917 - 604 pages
...afterwards the party proceeded to a gallery which opened on the street. There Robert R. Livingston, Chancellor of the State of New York, administered the oath of office, after which he proclaimed in a loud voice," Long live George Washington, the President of the United... | |
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Chancellor of the State of New York, administered the oath of office to President Washington. 
