Chief Justice Roger B. Taney administered the presidential oath of office.

Pierce affirmed the oath of office rather than swear it, and was also the first president to recite his inaugural address from memory.

Ill with tuberculosis, King was in Spanish Cuba in an effort to recover in the warmer climate, and was not able to be in Washington to take his oath of office on March 4.

By a Special Act of Congress, he was allowed to take the oath outside the United States, and was sworn in on March 24, 1853.

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