Yesterday, Joseph R. Biden, Jr. became the 46th President of the United States, and Vice President Kamala D. Harris became the nation’s first woman and woman of color to hold that office during a historic 59th presidential inauguration.
Like their predecessors, Biden and Harris took their oaths of office outside the Capitol Building. Vice President Harris was sworn in on the Capitol steps by Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor on a Bible that once belonged to the first African American to serve on the Supreme Court, Thurgood Marshall.
The theme of the scaled down inaugural celebration was “America United,” which “reflects the beginning of a new national journey that restores the soul of America, brings the country together, and creates a path to a brighter future,” according to an announcement from the Presidential Inaugural Committee.
