mar 4, 1901 - William McKinley begins his second term as President of the United States, and Theodore Roosevelt is sworn into the then-unimportant job of Vice President of the United States

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It marked the first time in 28 years that an incumbent president had been sworn in for a second consecutive term. After four Southern states had disenfranchised African-American voters during McKinley's first term, when he was pursuing reconciliation between North and South after the end of the American Civil War and the Reconstruction era, McKinley announced in his second inaugural address, "We are reunited. Sectionalism has disappeared. Division on public questions can no longer be traced on the war maps of 1861. These old differences less and less disturb the judgment.

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