On August 21, 1923, Hoehling re-administered the Presidential oath of office to Calvin Coolidge. Hoehling kept the second swearing in a secret until confirming Harry M. Daugherty's revelation of it in 1932.[3] When Hoehling confirmed Daugherty's story, he indicated that Daugherty, then serving as United States Attorney General, asked him to administer the oath at the Willard Hotel.[4] According to Hoehling, he did not question Daugherty's reason for requesting a second oath taking, but assumed it was to resolve any doubt about whether the first swearing in was valid, since an oath for a federal office had been administered by Coolidge's father, a Vermont notary public and justice of the peace.[4][5]
Later career and death
After his resignation from the federal bench, Hoehling returned to private practice in Washington, D.C.[1] He died in Washington, D.C., on February 17, 1941,[1] and was buried at Arlington National Cemetery, Section West, Site 155B.
Family
On June 9, 1906, Hoehling married Louise Gilbert Carrington (1882–1968) of New Jersey.[citation needed] They were the parents of three children.[citation needed]