80th to 99th Congresses
(January 3, 1947 to January 3, 1987)
Date | Type | Occasion, topic, or location | Name and position of dignitary
(Where Applicable) |
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80th Congress (1947–1949) | |||
Jan. 6, 1947 | Joint Session | State of the Union Address21 | President Harry S. Truman. |
Mar. 12, 1947 | Joint Session | Greek-Turkish aid policy | President Harry S. Truman. |
May 1, 1947 | Joint Meeting | Address | Miguel Aleman, President of Mexico. |
Nov. 17, 1947 | Joint Session | Aid to Europe message | President Harry S. Truman. |
Jan. 7, 1948 | Joint Session | State of the Union Address | President Harry S. Truman. |
Mar. 17, 1948 | Joint Session | National security and conditions in Europe | President Harry S. Truman. |
Apr. 19, 1948 | Joint Session | 50th anniversary, liberation of Cuba | President Harry S. Truman; Guillermo Belt, Ambassador of Cuba. |
July 27, 1948 | Joint Session | Inflation, housing, and civil rights | President Harry S. Truman. |
81st Congress (1949–1951) | |||
Jan. 5, 1949 | Joint Session | State of the Union Address | President Harry S. Truman. |
Jan. 6, 1949 | Joint Session | Counting electoral votes | N.A. |
Jan. 20, 1949 | Joint Session | Inauguration, East Portico | President Harry S. Truman; Vice President Alben W. Barkley. |
May 19, 1949 | Joint Meeting | Address | Eurico Gaspar Dutra, President of Brazil. |
Jan. 4, 1950 | Joint Session | State of the Union Address | President Harry S. Truman. |
May 31, 1950 | Joint Meeting22 | Address | Dean Acheson, Secretary of State. |
82nd Congress (1951–1953) | |||
Jan. 8, 1951 | Joint Session | State of the Union Address | President Harry S. Truman. |
Feb. 1, 1951 | Joint Meeting23 | North Atlantic Treaty Organization | General Dwight D. Eisenhower. |
Apr. 2, 1951 | Joint Meeting | Address | Vincent Auriol, President of France. |
Apr. 19, 1951 | Joint Meeting | Return from Pacific Command | General Douglas MacArthur. |
June 21, 1951 | Joint Meeting | Address | Galo Plaza, President of Ecuador. |
Sept. 24, 1951 | Joint Meeting | Address | Alcide de Gasperi, Prime Minister of Italy. |
Jan. 9, 1952 | Joint Session | State of the Union Address | President Harry S. Truman. |
Jan. 17, 1952 | Joint Meeting | Address | Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. |
Apr. 3, 1952 | Joint Meeting | Address | Juliana, Queen of the Netherlands. |
May 22, 1952 | Joint Meeting | Korea | General Matthew B. Ridgway. |
June 10, 1952 | Joint Session | Steel industry dispute | President Harry S. Truman. |
83rd Congress (1953–1955) | |||
Jan. 6, 1953 | Joint Session | Counting electoral votes | N.A. |
Jan. 20, 1953 | Joint Session | Inauguration, East Portico | President Dwight D. Eisenhower; Vice President Richard M. Nixon. |
Feb. 2, 1953 | Joint Session | State of the Union Address | President Dwight D. Eisenhower. |
Jan. 7, 1954 | Joint Session | State of the Union Address | President Dwight D. Eisenhower. |
Jan. 29, 1954 | Joint Meeting | Address | Celal Bayar, President of Turkey. |
May 4, 1954 | Joint Meeting | Address | Vincent Massey, Governor General of Canada. |
May 28, 1954 | Joint Meeting | Address | Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia. |
July 28, 1954 | Joint Meeting | Address | Syngman Rhee, President of the Republic of Korea. |
84th Congress (1955–1957) | |||
Jan. 6, 1955 | Joint Session | State of the Union Address | President Dwight D. Eisenhower. |
Jan. 27, 1955 | Joint Meeting | Address | Paul E. Magloire, President of Haiti. |
Feb. 29, 1956 | Joint Meeting | Address | Giovanni Gronchi, President of Italy. |
May 17, 1956 | Joint Meeting | Address | Dr. Sukarno, President of Indonesia. |
85th Congress (1957–1959) | |||
Jan. 5, 1957 | Joint Session | Middle East message | President Dwight D. Eisenhower. |
Jan. 7, 1957 | Joint Session | Counting electoral votes | N.A. |
Jan. 10, 1957 | Joint Session | State of the Union Address | President Dwight D. Eisenhower. |
Jan. 21, 1957 | Joint Session | Inauguration, East Portico | President Dwight D. Eisenhower; Vice President Richard M. Nixon. |
May 9, 1957 | Joint Meeting | Address | Ngo Dinh Diem, President of Vietnam. |
Jan. 9, 1958 | Joint Session | State of the Union Address | President Dwight D. Eisenhower. |
June 5, 1958 | Joint Meeting | Address | Theodor Heuss, President of West Germany. |
June 18, 1958 | Joint Meeting | Address | Carlos F. Garcia, President of the Philippines. |
86th Congress (1959–1961) | |||
Jan. 9, 1959 | Joint Session | State of the Union Address | President Dwight D. Eisenhower. |
Jan. 21, 1959 | Joint Meeting | Address |
Arturo Frondizi,
President of Argentina. |
Feb. 12, 1959 | Joint Session | Sesquicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth | Fredric March, actor; Carl Sandburg, poet. |
Mar. 11, 1959 | Joint Meeting | Address | Jose Maria Lemus, President of El Salvador. |
Mar. 18, 1959 | Joint Meeting | Address | Sean T. O'Kelly, President of Ireland. |
May 12, 1959 | Joint Meeting | Address | Baudouin, King of the Belgians. |
Jan. 7, 1960 | Joint Session | State of the Union Address | President Dwight D. Eisenhower. |
Apr. 6, 1960 | Joint Meeting | Address | Alberto Lleras-Camargo, President of Colombia. |
Apr. 25, 1960 | Joint Meeting | Address | Charles de Gaulle, President of France. |
Apr. 28, 1960 | Joint Meeting | Address | Mahendra, King of Nepal. |
June 29, 1960 | Joint Meeting | Address | Bhumibol Adulyadej, King of Thailand. |
87th Congress (1961–1963) | |||
Jan. 6, 1961 | Joint Session | Counting electoral votes | N.A. |
Jan. 20, 1961 | Joint Session | Inauguration, East Portico | President John F. Kennedy; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson. |
Jan. 30, 1961 | Joint Session | State of the Union Address | President John F. Kennedy. |
May 4, 1961 | Joint Meeting | Address | Habib Bourguiba, President of Tunisia |
May 25, 1961 | Joint Session | Urgent national needs: foreign aid, defense, civil defense, and outer space | President John F. Kennedy. |
July 12, 1961 | Joint Meeting | Address | Mohammad Ayub Khan, President of Pakistan. |
Sept. 21, 1961 | Joint Meeting | Address | Manuel Prado, President of Peru. |
Jan. 11, 1962 | Joint Session | State of the Union Address | President John F. Kennedy. |
Feb. 26, 1962 | Joint Meeting | Friendship 7: 1st United States orbital space flight | Lt. Col. John H. Glenn, Jr., USMC; Friendship 7 astronaut. |
Apr. 4, 1962 | Joint Meeting | Address | Joao Goulart, President of Brazil. |
Apr. 12, 1962 | Joint Meeting | Address | Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, Shahanshah of Iran. |
88th Congress (1963–1965) | |||
Jan. 14, 1963 | Joint Session | State of the Union Address | President John F. Kennedy. |
May 21, 1963 | Joint Meeting | Flight of Faith 7 Spacecraft | Maj. Gordon L. Cooper, Jr., USAF, Faith 7 astronaut. |
Nov. 27, 1963 | Joint Session | Assumption of office | President Lyndon B. Johnson. |
Jan. 8, 1964 | Joint Session | State of the Union Address | President Lyndon B. Johnson. |
Jan. 15, 1964 | Joint Meeting | Address | Antonio Segni, President of Italy. |
May 28, 1964 | Joint Meeting | Address | Eamon de Valera, President of Ireland. |
89th Congress (1965–1967) | |||
Jan. 4, 1965 | Joint Session | State of the Union Address | President Lyndon B. Johnson. |
Jan. 6, 1965 | Joint Session | Counting electoral votes | N.A. |
Jan. 20, 1965 | Joint Session24 | Inauguration, East Portico | President Lyndon B. Johnson; Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey. |
Mar. 15, 1965 | Joint Session | Voting rights | President Lyndon B. Johnson. |
Sept. 14, 1965 | Joint Meeting | Flight of Gemini 5 Spacecraft | Lt. Col. Gordon L. Cooper, Jr., USAF; and Charles Conrad, Jr., USN; Gemini 5 astronauts. |
Jan. 12, 1966 | Joint Session | State of the Union Address | President Lyndon B. Johnson. |
Sept. 15, 1966 | Joint Meeting | Address | Ferdinand E. Marcos, President of the Philippines. |
90th Congress (1967–1969) | |||
Jan. 10, 1967 | Joint Session | State of the Union Address | President Lyndon B. Johnson. |
Apr. 28, 1967 | Joint Meeting | Vietnam policy | General William C. Westmoreland. |
Oct. 27, 1967 | Joint Meeting | Address | Gustavo Diaz Ordaz, President of Mexico. |
Jan. 17, 1968 | Joint Session | State of the Union Address | President Lyndon B. Johnson. |
91st Congress (1969–1971) | |||
Jan. 6, 1969 | Joint Session | Counting electoral votes25 | N.A. |
Jan. 9, 1969 | Joint Meeting | Apollo 8: 1st flight around the moon | Col. Frank Borman, USAF; Capt. James A. Lowell, Jr., USN; Lt. Col. William A. Anders, USAF; Apollo 8 astronauts. |
Jan. 14, 1969 | Joint Session | State of the Union Address | President Lyndon B. Johnson. |
Jan. 20, 1969 | Joint Session26 | Inauguration, East Portico | President Richard M. Nixon; Vice President Spiro T. Agnew. |
Sept. 16, 1969 | Joint Meeting | Apollo 11: 1st lunar landing | Neil A. Armstrong; Col. Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., USAF; and Lt. Col. Michael Collins, USAF; Apollo 11 astronauts. |
Jan. 22, 1970 | Joint Session | State of the Union Address | President Richard M. Nixon. |
Feb. 25, 1970 | Joint Meeting | Address | Georges Pompidou, President of France. |
June 3, 1970 | Joint Meeting | Address | Dr. Rafael Caldera, President of Venezuela. |
Sept. 22, 1970 | Joint Meeting | Report on prisoners of war | Col. Frank Borman, Representative to the President on Prisoners of War. |
92nd Congress (1971–1973) | |||
Jan. 22, 1971 | Joint Session | State of the Union Address | President Richard M. Nixon. |
Sept. 9, 1971 | Joint Session | Economic policy | President Richard M. Nixon. |
Sept. 9, 1971 | Joint Meeting | Apollo 15: lunar mission | Col. David R. Scott, USAF; Col. James B. Irwin, USAF; and Lt. Col. Alfred M. Worden, USAF; Apollo 15 astronauts. |
Jan. 20, 1972 | Joint Session | State of the Union Address | President Richard M. Nixon. |
June 1, 1972 | Joint Session | European trip report | President Richard M. Nixon. |
June 15, 1972 | Joint Meeting | Address | Luis Echeverria Alvarez, President of Mexico. |
93rd Congress (1973–1975) | |||
Jan. 6, 1973 | Joint Session | Counting electoral votes | N.A. |
Jan. 20, 1973 | Inauguration | East Portico | President Richard M. Nixon; Vice President Spiro T. Agnew. |
Dec. 6, 1973 | Joint Meeting | Oath of office to Vice President Gerald R. Ford | Vice President Gerald R. Ford; ceremony attended by President Richard M. Nixon. |
Jan. 30 1974 | Joint Session | State of the Union Address | President Richard M. Nixon. |
Aug. 12, 1974 | Joint Session | Assumption of office | President Gerald R. Ford. |
Oct. 8, 1974 | Joint Session | Economy | President Gerald R. Ford. |
94th Congress (1975–1977) | |||
Jan. 15, 1975 | Joint Session | State of the Union Address | President Gerald R. Ford. |
Apr. 10, 1975 | Joint Session | State of the World message | President Gerald R. Ford. |
June 17, 1975 | Joint Meeting | Address | Walter Scheel, President of West Germany. |
Nov. 5, 1975 | Joint Meeting | Address | Anwar El Sadat, President of Egypt. |
Jan. 19, 1976 | Joint Session | State of the Union Address | President Gerald R. Ford. |
Jan. 28, 1976 | Joint Meeting | Address | Yitzhak Rabin, Prime Minister of Israel. |
Mar. 17, 1976 | Joint Meeting | Address | Liam Cosgrave, Prime Minister of Ireland. |
May 18, 1976 | Joint Meeting | Address | Valery Giscard d'Estaing, President of France. |
June 2, 1976 | Joint Meeting | Address | Juan Carlos I, King of Spain. |
Sept. 23, 1976 | Joint Meeting | Address | Dr. William R. Tolbert, Jr., President of Liberia. |
95th Congress (1977–1979) | |||
Jan. 6, 1977 | Joint Session | Counting electoral votes | N.A. |
Jan. 12, 1977 | Joint Session | State of the Union Address | President Gerald R. Ford. |
Jan. 20, 1977 | Inauguration | East Portico | President Jimmy Carter; Vice President Walter F. Mondale. |
Feb. 22, 1977 | Joint Meeting | Address | Pierre Elliot Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada. |
Apr. 20, 1977 | Joint Session | Energy | President Jimmy Carter. |
Jan. 19, 1978 | Joint Session | State of the Union Address | President Jimmy Carter. |
Sept. 18, 1978 | Joint Session | Middle East Peace agreements | Joint session attended by Anwar El Sadat, President of Egypt, and by Menachem Begin, Prime Minister of Israel. |
96th Congress (1979–1981) | |||
Jan. 23, 1979 | Joint Session | State of the Union Address | President Jimmy Carter. |
June 18, 1979 | Joint Session | Salt II agreements | President Jimmy Carter. |
Jan. 23, 1980 | Joint Session | State of the Union Address | President Jimmy Carter. |
97th Congress (1981–1983) | |||
Jan. 6, 1981 | Joint Session | Counting electoral votes | N.A. |
Jan. 20, 1981 | Joint Session27 | Inauguration, West Front | President Ronald Reagan; Vice President George Bush. |
Feb. 18, 1981 | Joint Session | Economic recovery | President Ronald Reagan. |
Apr. 28, 1981 | Joint Session | Economic recovery--inflation | President Ronald Reagan. |
Jan. 26, 1982 | Joint Session | State of the Union Address | President Ronald Reagan. |
Jan. 28, 1982 | Joint Meeting | Centennial of birth of Franklin Delano Roosevelt | Dr. Arthur Schlesinger, historian; Senator Jennings Randolph; Representative Claude Pepper; Averell Harriman, former Governor of New York28; former Representative James Roosevelt, son of President Roosevelt. |
Apr. 21, 1982 | Joint Meeting | Address | Beatrix, Queen of the Netherlands. |
98th Congress (1983–1985) | |||
Jan. 25, 1983 | Joint Session | State of the Union Address | President Ronald Reagan. |
Apr. 27, 1983 | Joint Session | Central America | President Ronald Reagan. |
Oct. 5, 1983 | Joint Meeting | Address | Karl Carstens, President of West Germany. |
Jan. 25, 1984 | Joint Session | State of the Union Address | President Ronald Reagan. |
Mar. 15, 1984 | Joint Meeting | Address | Dr. Garett FitzGerald, Prime Minister of Ireland. |
Mar. 22, 1984 | Joint Meeting | Address | Francois Mitterand, President of France. |
May 8, 1984 | Joint Meeting |
Centennial of birth of Harry S Truman | Representatives Ike Skelton and Alan Wheat; former Senator Stuart Symington; Margaret Truman Daniel, daughter of President Truman; and Senator Mark Hatfield. |
May 16, 1984 | Joint Meeting | Address | Miguel de la Madrid, President of Mexico. |
99th Congress (1985–1987) | |||
Jan. 7, 1985 | Joint Session | Counting electoral votes | N.A. |
Jan. 21, 1985 | Inauguration | Rotunda29 | President Ronald Reagan; Vice President George Bush. |
Feb. 6, 1985 | Joint Session | State of the Union Address | President Ronald Reagan. |
Feb. 20, 1985 | Joint Meeting | Address | Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. |
Mar. 6, 1985 | Joint Meeting | Address | Bettino Craxi, President of the Council of Ministers of Italy. |
Mar. 20, 1985 | Joint Meeting | Address | Raul Alfonsin, President of Argentina. |
June 13, 1985 | Joint Meeting | Address | Rajiv Gandhi, Prime Minister of India. |
Oct. 9, 1985 | Joint Meeting | Address | Lee Kuan Yew, Prime Minister of Singapore. |
Nov. 21, 1985 | Joint Session | Geneva Summit | President Ronald Reagan. |
Feb. 4, 1986 | Joint Session | State of the Union Address | President Ronald Reagan. |
Sept. 11, 1986 | Joint Meeting | Address | Jose Sarney, President of Brazil. |
Sept. 18, 1986 | Joint Meeting | Address | Corazon C. Aquino, President of the Philippines. |
Footnotes
21This was the first time the term "State of the Union Address" was used for the President's Annual Message. Also, it was the first time the address was shown live on television.
22An informal meeting in the Coolidge Auditorium of the Library of Congress.
23An informal meeting in the Coolidge Auditorium of the Library of Congress.
24According to the Congressional Record, the Senate adjourned prior to the inaugural ceremonies, even though the previously adopted resolution had stated the adjournment would come immediately following the inauguration. The Senate Journal records the adjournment as called for in the resolution, hence this listing as a Joint Session.
25The Joint Session to count electoral votes was dissolved so that the House and Senate could resolve the dispute regarding a ballot from North Carolina. The joint session was reconvened the same day and the North Carolina vote was counted.
26According to the Congressional Record, the Senate adjourned prior to the inaugural ceremonies, even though the previously adopted resolution had stated the adjournment would come immediately following the inauguration. The Senate Journal records the adjournment as called for in the resolution, hence this listing as a Joint Session.
27According to the Congressional Record, the Senate adjourned prior to the inaugural ceremonies, even though the previously adopted resolution had stated the adjournment would come immediately following the inauguration. The Senate Journal records the adjournment as called for in the resolution, hence this listing as a Joint Session.
28Because the Governor had laryngitis, his speech was read by his wife, Pamela.
29The ceremony was moved inside because of extremely cold weather.