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Presidency (1801–1809)
Main article: Presidency of Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson, by Rembrandt Peale,  1805
Jefferson was sworn in by Chief Justice John Marshall at the new Capitol in Washington, D.C. on March 4, 1801. His inauguration was not attended by outgoing President Adams. In contrast to his predecessors, Jefferson exhibited a dislike of formal etiquette. Plainly dressed, he arrived alone, and walked to the Capitol with his friends.[172] His inaugural address struck a note of reconciliation and commitment to democratic ideology, declaring, "We have been called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists."[173][174] Ideologically, he stressed "equal and exact justice to all men", minority rights, and freedom of speech, religion, and press.[175] He said that a free and democratic government was "the strongest government on earth."[175] He nominated moderate Republicans to his cabinet: James Madison as secretary of state, Henry Dearborn as secretary of war, Levi Lincoln as attorney general, and Robert Smith as secretary of the navy.[174]
Widowed since 1782, Jefferson first used his two daughters as hostesses.