This president’s mother was the first to attend her son’s inauguration.
James Garfield
John Quincy Adams
Martin Van Buren
Ulysses Grant
James Garfield. Eliza Ballou Garfield attended her son’s inauguration in 1881. Garfield’s mother and his father-in-law lived with Garfield, his wife, and their daughter and four sons. (Another son and daughter died as young children.) After Garfield’s assassination, his mother filled her bedroom with images of him in photos, paintings, and stained glass.