Judge Brady swears in President Arthur
in his apartment
John R. Brady was a justice of
the
New York Supreme Court,
best know for administering the
presidential
oath of office to
Chester A.
Arthur .
President
James A. Garfield died over two months after he was
shot by an assassin,
Charles
Guiteau. Arthur, then
Vice
President, became his successor.
Judge Brady swore in
Arthur in Arthur's private apartment at 123 Lexington Avenue in New York City
in the early hours of September 20, 1881.
Arthur,
however, was inaugurated again two days (September 22) later publicly on Capitol Hill
by Chief Justice of the United
States Morrison R.
Waite.
A three-quarter length seated portrait of Brady was painted in 1889
by the Swiss-born American artist
Adolfo Müller-Ury (1862-1947). The
New York Tribune, March 13, 1889 commented on this picture that
‘...The oil painting is an admirable work of art and a striking
likeness of the original.’ The Rev. Dr. Thomas J. Ducey, of St.
Leo’s Roman Catholic Church apparently presented the portrait to
the American Bar Association.
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