DULUTH — Donald Trump’s inauguration will happen Monday in Washington, D.C. at 11 a.m. as President Joe Biden’s term wraps up.
Trump, the 45th president of the United States of America, also becomes the 47th U.S. president as he begins his second term in the White House.
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To mark the occasion, we're looking back at the times the Twin Ports area has hosted U.S. presidents.
During Biden’s presidency, he visited in 2022 and 2024. He also visited in 2020 while campaigning for president and in 2012 as vice president. Biden’s wife, First Lady Jill Biden, visited solo in 2024.
During Trump’s first term as president, he visited in 2018 and 2020 and also made a stop in 2016 while campaigning to be president.
Besides Trump and Biden, according to a Feb. 17, 2020, article written by Paul Lundgren of the website Perfect Duluth Day, known visits to Duluth from U.S. presidents, either during, after or before their terms, include George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, Richard Nixon, John F. Kennedy, Dwight Eisenhower, Harry Truman, Herbert Hoover, Calvin Coolidge, William Taft, Theodore Roosevelt, William McKinley, Rutherford B. Hayes and Ulysses S. Grant.
According to local historian and retired librarian Teddie Meronek, of Superior, 12 presidents are known to have visited Superior and Douglas County either during, before or after their terms: Grant, McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, Coolidge, Hoover, Franklin Roosevelt (as a child), Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, Trump and Biden.
Coolidge famously had the “Summer White House” at Superior Central High School from June 15-Sept. 10, 1928.
You can look for more details regarding these visits to Superior and Douglas County in the upcoming Feb. 12, episode of the "Archive Dive" podcast, featuring Meronek and hosted by Superior Telegram reporter Maria Lockwood.
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Below are images from the Duluth News Tribune archives of when U.S. presidents visited our neck of the woods.
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