History Hop Tags - Sworn

1609-09-01

Pieter Both sworn in as 1st governor general of Dutch East Indies

1625-06-02

Prince Frederik Henry sworn in as viceroy of Holland/Zealand

1647-05-23

Willem II sworn in as viceroy of Holland

1653-07-30

Johan de Witt sworn in as pension advisor of Holland

1683-06-23

William Penn signs friendship treaty with Lenni Lenape indians in Pennsylvania; only treaty "not sworn to, nor broken"

1707-11-22

Prince Johan Willem Friso sworn in as viceroy of Friesland

1708-02-24

Prince Johan Willem Friso sworn in as viceroy of Groningen

1747-05-16

Prince Willem V sworn in as admiral-general of Neth

1789-04-21

John Adams sworn in as 1st US VP (9 days before Washington)

1848-01-03

Joseph Jenkins Roberts is sworn in as the first President of the independent African Republic of Liberia.

1849-03-04

US had no president, Polks term ends on a Sunday, Taylor couldn't be sworn-in, Sen David Atchison (pres pro tem) term ended Mar 3rd

1849-03-05

Zachary Taylor sworn in as 12th US president

1850-07-10

Millard Fillmore sworn in as president of US (replacing Taylor)

1853-03-04

William Rufus de Vane King (D) sworn in as 13th US VP

1870-02-25

Hiram R. Revels, is sworn in as 1st black member of Congress (Sen-R-MS)

1870-12-12

Joseph Rainey (SC) became 1st black sworn into House of Reps

1871-01-16

Jefferson Long of Georgia sworn in as 2nd black congressman

1877-03-03

Rutherford B. Hayes is sworn in as the 19th US president

1881-09-20

Chester A. Arthur sworn in as 21st president

1896-05-01

Seven days after parliament was dissolved, Charles Tupper is sworn in as the 6th Prime Minister of Canada

1896-07-01

Wilfrid Laurel sworn in as 1st French speaking premier of Canada

1896-07-11

Wilfrid Laurier sworn in as the 7th Prime Minister of Canada

1899-01-23

Emilio Aguinaldo is sworn in as President of the First Philippine Republic.

1918-07-25

Annette Adams sworn in as 1st woman district attorney of US, Calif

1919-12-01

Lady Nancy Astor sworn-in as 1st female member of British Parliament

1921-12-29

Mackenzie King elected and sworn in as the 10th Prime Minister of Canada

1922-11-21

Rebecca L Felton (Ga) sworn in as first female US Senator

1925-01-10

Miriam (Ma) Ferguson sworn in as TX gov, nation's 2nd woman governor

1925-11-28

7th French government of Briand sworn-in

1931-01-22

Sir Isaac Isaacs is sworn in as the first Australian-born Governor-General of Australia.

1932-12-31

John P O'Brien sworn-in as mayor of NYC

1934-02-16

Commission of Government is sworn in as form of direct rule for the Dominion of Newfoundland.

1935-07-31

3rd Dutch government of Colijn sworn in

1939-09-01

Gen George Marshall sworn in as the United States Army Chief of Staff

1945-01-20

Franklin D. Roosevelt sworn-in for an unprecedented 4th term as US President

1945-03-08

Phyllis M Daley is 1st black nurse sworn-in as US Navy ensign

1945-04-12

Harry Truman sworn in as 33rd pres

1947-09-17

James Forrestal sworn in as 1st US secretary of defense

1948-05-26

Entire Hagana-arm forces sworn-in as Israeli soldiers

1948-07-07

6 female reservists become 1st women sworn into regular US Navy

1948-11-15

Louis St. Laurent is sworn in as the 12th Prime Minister of Canada

1948-12-03

1st US woman army officer not in medical corps sworn in

1950-09-21

George Marshall sworn in as the 3rd Secretary of Defense of United States.

1952-01-24

Vincent Massey is sworn in as the first Canadian-born Governor General of Canada.

1953-10-05

Earl Warren sworn in as 14th chief justice of US

1953-12-31

Hulan Jack sworn in as Manhattan Borough president

1955-11-12

1st West German officers sworn in

1956-04-05

In Sri Lanka, the Mahajana Eksath Peramuna win the general elections in a landslide and S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike is sworn in as the Prime Minister.

1957-06-21

Ellen Louks Fairclough is sworn in as Canada's first woman Cabinet Minister.

1958-05-01

Arturo Frondizi sworn in as president of Argentina

1959-06-05

The first government of the State of Singapore is sworn in.

1959-08-24

Hiram L Fong sworn in as 1st Chinese-American senator while Daniel K Inouye sworn in as 1st Japanese-American Rep (Both from Hawaii)

1961-02-11

Robert Weaver sworn in with then highest federal post by a black

1962-12-03

Edith Spurlock Sampson sworn-in as 1st US black female judge

1963-01-14

George C Wallace sworn in as governor of Alabama, his address states "segregation now; segregation tomorrow; segregation forever!"

1963-04-22

Lester B. Pearson is sworn in as the 14th Prime Minister of Canada

1963-11-22

Lyndon B. Johnson sworn in as the 36th US president after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy

1966-09-13

Johannes Balthazar Vorster sworn in as premier of South Africa

1967-03-15

Marshal Arturo da Costa e Silva sworn in as pres of Brazil

1967-10-02

Thurgood Marshall sworn in as 1st black Supreme Court Justice

1967-11-13

Carl B Stokes sworn-in as 1st major city black mayor (Cleveland Oh)

1968-04-20

Pierre Trudeau sworn in as Canada's 15th Prime Minister

1969-02-17

Golda Meir sworn in as the first female prime minister of Israel

1969-06-20

Georges Pompidou sworn in as President of France

1969-06-23

Warren E Burger sworn in as US Supreme Court Chief Justice

1970-06-09

Harry A Blackmun, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice

1970-10-17

Anwar Sadat sworn in as president of Egypt

1970-12-01

Luis Echeverria Alvarez sworn in as president of Mexico

1971-07-06

Dr Hastings Kamuzu Banda sworn in as President for Life of Malawi

1972-01-07

William Hubbs Rehnquist, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice

1972-02-18

Giulio Andreotti sworn in as premier of Italy

1972-07-07

1st women FBI members sworn in (Susan Lynn Roley & Joanne E Pierce)

1973-09-22

Henry Kissinger, sworn in as America's 1st Jewish Secretary of State

1973-12-06

Gerald Ford sworn-in as 1st unelected VP, succeeds Spiro T Agnew

1974-12-19

Nelson A Rockefeller sworn-in as 41st VP

1975-04-28

South-Vietnam Gen Duong Van Minh sworn in as president till April 30

1976-07-30

Giulio Andreotti sworn in as premier of Italy

1979-05-29

Bishop Abel Muzorewa is sworn in as Zimbabwe's 1st black PM

1979-06-04

Joe Clark is sworn in as the youngest Prime Minister in Canadian history

1980-02-04

Bani Sadr sworn in as premier of Iran

1980-03-03

Pierre Trudeau sworn in, for the second time, as the 17th Prime Minister of Canada

1981-09-25

Sandra Day O'Connor sworn in as 1st female supreme court justice

1981-12-22

Argentine general Leopoldo Galtieri sworn in as president

1982-07-01

General Reynaldo Bignone sworn in as president of Argentina

1982-07-16

George P. Shultz sworn in as US Secretary of State

1982-09-23

Amin Gemayel sworn in as president of Lebanon

1983-02-07

1st female secretary of transportation sworn-in (Elizabeth Dole)

1983-04-29

Harold Washington sworn in as Chicago's 1st black mayor

1983-08-04

Bettino Craxi sworn in as premier of Italy

1984-01-02

Wilson Goode, sworn-in as Phila's 1st black mayor

1984-09-17

Brian Mulroney sworn in as Canada's 18th PM succeeding John Turner

1985-07-28

Alan Garcia sworn in as president of Peru

1986-01-11

1st black lt gov since reconstruction sworn in (Douglas Wilder of Va)

1986-01-29

Yoweri Museveni sworn in as president of Uganda

1986-07-14

2nd government of Lubbers sworn in

1986-09-26

Antonin Scalia, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice

1986-09-26

William Hubbs Rehnquist, sworn in as Chief Justice of Supreme Court

1988-01-25

Ramsewak Shankar sworn in as pres of Suriname

1988-02-18

Anthony M Kennedy, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice

1989-09-20

FW De Klerk sworn in as president of South Africa

1989-11-23

Xenophobia Zolotas sworn in as premier of Greece

1989-12-02

Vishwanath Pratap Singh sworn in as president of India

1990-01-01

David Dinkins sworn in as 1st black mayor of NYC

1990-03-01

Luis Alberto Lacelle sworn in as president of Uruguay

1990-03-09

Dr Antonia Novello sworn-in as 1st hispanic/female US surgeon general

1990-03-15

Fernando Collor de Mello sworn in as pres of Brazil

1990-10-09

David Hackett Souter, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice

1990-12-22

Lech Walesa sworn in as Poland's 1st popularly elected president

1991-01-14

Jorge Serrano Elias sworn in as president of Guatemala

1991-02-07

Jean-Bertrand Aristide sworn in as Haiti's 1st elected president

1991-07-10

Boris Yeltsin sworn in as 1st elected president of Russian Federation

1991-10-23

Clarence Thomas sworn in as US Supreme Court Justice

1991-12-01

Nursultan Nazarbayev sworn in as president of Kazakhstan

1994-04-28

Freddy Thielemans sworn in as mayor of Brussels Belgium

1994-05-10

Nelson Mandela sworn in as South Africa's 1st black president

1994-06-15

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice

1994-07-01

Roman Herzog sworn in as German president

1994-07-15

Gyula Horn sworn in as premier of Hungary

1994-07-19

Leonid Kvetjsma sworn in as Ukraine president

1994-08-07

Ernesto Samper sworn in as president of Colombia

1994-08-12

Stephen G Breyer, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice

1994-09-15

Dennis Richardson sworn in as head of St Maarten

1994-10-01

Stanley Betrian sworn in as leader of Curacao

1994-11-30

Man Mohan Adhikary sworn in as 1st communist premier of Nepal

1995-01-19

Jean-Claude Juncker (28) sworn in as premier of Luxembourg

1995-03-01

Julio Maria Sanguinetti sworn in as president of Uruguay

1997-01-10

Right-winger Arnoldo Aleman sworn in as president of Nicaragua

1997-07-25

K.R. Narayanan is sworn-in as India's 10th president and the first Dalit— formerly called "untouchable"— to hold this office.

1999-01-04

Former professional wrestler Jesse Ventura is sworn in as governor of Minnesota.

2001-07-24

Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the last Tsar of Bulgaria when he was a child, is sworn in as Prime Minister of Bulgaria, becoming the first monarch in history to regain political power through democratic election to a different office.

2005-01-26

Condoleezza Rice is sworn in as U.S. Secretary of State, becoming the first African American woman to hold the post.

2006-01-16

Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is sworn in as Liberia's new president. She becomes Africa's first female elected head of state.

2006-08-04

Dame Silvia Cartwright steps down as the Governor-General of New Zealand and is replaced by The Honourable Anand Satyanand, who is sworn in on 23 August.

2007-07-25

Pratibha Patil is sworn in as India's first woman president

2012-04-12

Civilian rule in Mali is returned after Dioncounda Traore is sworn in as interim president

2012-05-07

Vladimir Putin sworn in for third six year term as President of Russia

2012-06-30

Mohamed Morsi is sworn in as President of Egypt

2012-07-25

Ivica Dačić is sworn in as Prime Minister of Serbia

2012-12-01

Enrique Peña Nieto sworn in as President of Mexico

2013-05-24

Rafael Correa is sworn into a third term as President of Ecuador

2013-06-05

Nawaz Sharif is sworn in as Prime Minister of Pakistan

2014-07-16

Bashar Assad is sworn in for a third term as President of Syria

2014-07-24

Reuven Rivlin is sworn in as the President of Israel

2015-11-04

Justin Trudeau sworn in as Canada's Prime Minister

2016-02-27

Virginia officer killed a day after she is sworn in

2017-04-11

Neil Gorsuch Sworn In As 9th Justice On The Supreme Court

1957-12-29

Gwendolyn Mitchell, Sworn to Justice