Inaugural Address Lengths

William Henry Harrison had the longest inaugural address at 8,460 words and took one hour and 45 minutes to deliver. This was 3,000 words more than Taft's which was the second longest.
George Washington's second inaugural address was the shortest at 135 words. It lasted less than two minutes.
The average length of a presidential inaugural address is 2,337 words.
Five presidents did not give inaugural addresses.

Rank	#	President	Year	Length in Words
1	9	William Henry Harrison	1841	8460
2	27	William H. Taft	1909	5434
3	11	James K. Polk	1845	4809
4	5	James Monroe	1821	4472
5	23	Benjamin Harrison	1889	4392
6	30	Calvin Coolidge	1925	4055
7	25	William McKinley	1897	3968
8	8	Martin Van Buren	1837	3843
9	31	Herbert Hoover	1929	3672
10	16	Abraham Lincoln	1861	3637
11	5	James Monroe	1817	3375
12	14	Franklin Pierce	1853	3336
13	29	Warren G. Harding	1921	3329
14	20	James A. Garfield	1881	2979
15	6	John Quincy Adams	1825	2915
16	15	James Buchanan	1857	2831
17	40	Ronald Reagan	1985	2561
18	19	Rutherford B. Hayes	1877	2486
19	34	Dwight D. Eisenhower	1953	2459
20	40	Ronald Reagan	1981	2427
21	44	Barack Obama	2009	2395
22	2	John Adams	1797	2321
23	41	George H. W. Bush	1989	2320
24	33	Harry S. Truman	1949	2273
25	25	William McKinley	1901	2218
26	3	Thomas Jefferson	1805	2166
27	42	Bill Clinton	1997	2155
28	37	Richard M. Nixon	1969	2128
29	44	Barack Obama	2013	2096
30	43	George W. Bush	2005	2071
31	24	Grover Cleveland	1893	2015
32	32	Franklin D. Roosevelt	1933	1880
33	32	Franklin D. Roosevelt	1937	1808
34	37	Richard M. Nixon	1973	1803
35	3	Thomas Jefferson	1801	1730
36	28	Woodrow Wilson	1913	1704
37	22	Grover Cleveland	1885	1686
38	34	Dwight D. Eisenhower	1957	1658
39	42	Bill Clinton	1993	1598
40	43	George W. Bush	2001	1592
41	28	Woodrow Wilson	1917	1526
42	36	Lyndon B. Johnson	1965	1507
43	45	Donald J. Trump	2017	1433
44	1	George Washington	1789	1431
45	35	John F. Kennedy	1961	1366
46	32	Franklin D. Roosevelt	1941	1359
47	18	Ulysses S. Grant	1873	1339
48	39	Jimmy Carter	1977	1229
49	4	James Madison	1813	1211
50	4	James Madison	1809	1177
51	7	Andrew Jackson	1833	1176
52	7	Andrew Jackson	1829	1128
53	18	Ulysses S. Grant	1869	1127
54	12	Zachary Taylor	1849	1090
55	26	Theodore Roosevelt	1905	984
56	16	Abraham Lincoln	1865	700
57	32	Franklin D. Roosevelt	1945	559
58	1	George Washington	1793	135
-	10	John Tyler		Did not give an inaugural address.
-	13	Millard Fillmore		Did not give an inaugural address.
-	17	Andrew Johnson		Did not give an inaugural address.
-	21	Chester A. Arthur		Did not give an inaugural address.
-	38	Gerald R. Ford		Did not give an inaugural address.

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