The coldest inauguration to be held outside was President Ulysses S. Grant's in 1873, which was held on the old Inauguration Day of March 4. The temperature at noon was 16 degrees, and a day low ...

Andrew Johnson, who was also the first president to be impeached and had not run for re-election, skipped Ulysses S. Grant’s inauguration in 1869. The two “detested each other,” the Library ...

for President Ulysses Grant in 1873, 16 degrees. The warmest presidential inauguration was for President Ronald Reagan’s first term on January 20, 1981, when the noon temperature was 55 degrees.