section_path: Presidency (2021–2025)/Inauguration
section_name: Inauguration
paragraph_text: Inauguration
  
  Biden was inaugurated as the 46th president of the United States on January 20, 2021. At 78, he became the oldest person to assume the office. He was the second Catholic U.S. president, after John F. Kennedy, and the first president elected from the state of Delaware. He was also the first person since George H. W. Bush to have been both vice president and president, and the only president to date from the Silent Generation. Biden's inauguration was "a muted affair unlike any previous inauguration" due to COVID-19 precautions as well as massively increased security measures because of the January 6 United States Capitol attack.
  
  Biden was inaugurated as the 46th president of the United States on January 20, 2021. At 78, he became the oldest person to assume the office. He was the second Catholic U.S. president, after John F. Kennedy, and the first president elected from the state of Delaware. He was also the first person since George H. W. Bush to have been both vice president and president, and the only president to date from the Silent Generation. Biden's inauguration was "a muted affair unlike any previous inauguration" due to COVID-19 precautions as well as massively increased security measures because of the January 6 United States Capitol attack.