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| The State of the Union is an annual address presented before a joint session of Congress and held in the House of Representatives Chamber at the U.S. Capitol. The address not only reports on the condition of the nation, but also allows the president to outline his/her legislative agenda and national priorities to Congress. The Constitution says, ""The President shall from time to time give to Congress information of the State of the Union and recommend to their Consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient." Article II, Sec. 3, U.S. Constitution Prior to the 20th Century, the State of the Union was referred to as the President's Annual Message. It was often delivered as a written report to Congress where a clerk would read it. As the President's Annual Message is in fact an earlier name for the State of the Union, all of these are labeled as State of the Union Addresses at this site. Here are the State of the Union Addresses of the American Presidents: George Washington 1790, 1790 Dec, 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794, 1795, 1796 John Adams 1797, 1798, 1799, 1800 Thomas Jefferson 1801, 1802, 1803, 1804, 1805, 1806, 1807, 1808 James Madison 1809, 1810, 1811, 1812, 1813, 1814, 1815, 1816 James Monroe 1817, 1818, 1819, 1820, 1821, 1822, 1823, 1824 John Quincy Adams 1825, 1826, 1827, 1828 Andrew Jackson 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832, 1833, 1834, 1835, 1836 Martin Van Buren 1837, 1838, 1839, 1840 William Henry Harrison None John Tyler 1841, 1842, 1843, 1844 James Knox Polk 1845, 1846, 1847, 1848 Zachary Taylor 1849 Millard Fillmore 1850, 1851, 1852 Franklin Pierce 1853, 1854, 1855, 1856 James Buchanan 1857, 1858, 1859, 1860 Abraham Lincoln 1861, 1862, 1863, 1864 Andrew Johnson 1865, 1866, 1867, 1868 Ulyssess S. Grant 1869, 1870, 1871, 1872, 1873, 1874, 1875, 1876 Rutherford B. Hayes 1877, 1878, 1879, 1880 James A. Garfield None Chester Arthur 1881, 1882, 1883, 1884 Grover Cleveland 1885, 1886, 1887, 1888 Benjamin Harrison 1889, 1890, 1891, 1892 Grover Cleveland 1893, 1894, 1895, 1896 William McKinley 1897, 1898, 1899, 1900 Theodore Roosevelt 1901, 1902, 1903, 1904, 1905, 1906, 1907, 1908 William Howard Taft 1909, 1910, 1911, 1912 Woodrow Wilson 1913, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1920 Calvin Coolidge 1923, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928 Herbert Hoover 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945 Harry S. Truman 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953 Dwight D. Eisenhower 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961 John F. Kennedy 1961, 1962, 1963 Lyndon B. Johnson 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969 Richard M. Nixon 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974 Jimmy Carter 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981 Ronald Reagan 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988 George Bush 1989 (*), 1990, 1991, 1992 Bill Clinton 1993 (*), 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 George W. Bush 2001(*), 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 * Note that these speeches are not officially listed as State of the
Union Addresses. Regardless, they were perceived as being State of the
Union Addresses by the press and the public at the time they were delivered
and are commonly remembered as being State of the Union Addresses. They
are accordingly treated as such by this site.
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