Like Trump ... American presidents did not attend the inauguration

• Richard Nixon resigned from the White House.

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• Woodrow Wilson did not attend the inauguration due to his poor health.

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• Trump made up his mind and decided not to attend Biden's inauguration.

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By not attending the inauguration of President-elect, Joe Biden, US President Donald Trump will break away from White House traditions.

Trump will become the first outgoing president to refuse to attend the inauguration of his successor, since 1869, when President Andrew Johnson resided in the White House while Ulysses Grant was sworn in as the 18th president of the United States.

Presidents John Adams and his son, John Quincy Adams, also chose not to attend the inauguration of the two presidents who replaced them, Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson.

Both left Washington before the ceremony.

1869: Andrew Johnson, a Tennessee Democrat, and Ulysses Grant, a former Republican general in the Civil War, despised each other.

Grant supported Johnson's removal.

While the latter was sworn in in Congress, Johnson met cabinet members and signed bills, following a last-minute decision not to attend.

For his part, Grant refused to ride in with Johnson in the same carriage, from the White House to the Capitol.

The plan was for them to ride in two separate vehicles.

But when Grant showed up at the White House, 30 minutes before the ceremony began, Johnson was not out.

1801: President John Adams left the White House hours before the inauguration of his successor, on March 4, in protest over the way the new president's test had been conducted.

Thomas Jefferson assumed the presidency in a fraught atmosphere.

1829: After 28 years, President John Quincy Adams (John Adams' son) left Washington the day before Andrew Jackson was inaugurated.

The elections of 1828 were controversial.

1841: President Martin Van Buren did not attend the inauguration of William Henry Harrison, but for reasons that are unclear, according to historians.

Although Harrison defeated Van Buren in the election in 1840, the two men had a friendship.

1921: President Woodrow Wilson did not attend Warren J. Harding's inauguration due to poor health.

But Wilson and Harding drove to the Capitol in a show of a peaceful transfer of power.

Wilson had not run in the elections.

1974: President Richard Nixon - who resigned from the White House - was not present while President Gerald Ford was sworn in in the White House.

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