Congress
& Date |
Type
|
Occasion,
topic, or location |
Name
and position of dignitary
(where applicable) |
60th
Congress
|
Feb.
10, 1909 |
Joint
session |
Counting
electoral votes |
N.A. |
61st
Congress
|
Mar. 4, 1909 |
Inauguration |
Senate
Chamber16 |
President
William Howard Taft. |
62nd
Congress
|
Feb.
12, 1913 |
Joint
session |
Counting
electoral votes |
N.A. |
Feb. 15, 1913 |
Joint
session |
Memorial
for Vice President James S. Sherman17 |
Senators
Elihu Root, Thomas S. Martin, Jacob H. Gallinger, John R. Thornton,
Henry Cabot Lodge, John W. Kern, Robert M. LaFollette, John Sharp
Williams, Charles Curtis, Albert B. Cummins, George T. Oliver, James
A. O'Gorman; Speaker Champ Clark; President William Howard Taft. |
63rd
Congress
|
Mar.
4, 1913 |
Inauguration |
East
Portico |
President
Woodrow Wilson. |
Apr.
8, 1913 |
Joint
session |
Tariff
message |
President
Woodrow Wilson. |
June
23, 1913 |
Joint
session |
Currency
and bank reform message |
President
Woodrow Wilson. |
Aug.
27, 1913 |
Joint
session |
Mexican
affairs message |
President
Woodrow Wilson. |
Dec.
2, 1913 |
Joint
session |
Annual
Message |
President
Woodrow Wilson. |
Jan.
20, 1914 |
Joint
session |
Trusts
message |
President
Woodrow Wilson. |
Mar.
5, 1914 |
Joint
session |
Panama
Canal tolls |
President
Woodrow Wilson. |
Apr.
20, 1914 |
Joint
session |
Mexico
message |
President
Woodrow Wilson. |
Sept.
4, 1914 |
Joint
session |
War
tax message |
President
Woodrow Wilson. |
Dec.
8, 1914 |
Joint
session |
Annual
Message |
President
Woodrow Wilson. |
64th
Congress
|
Dec.
7, 1915 |
Joint
session |
Annual
Message |
President
Woodrow Wilson. |
Aug.
29, 1916 |
Joint
session |
Railroad
message (labor-management dispute) |
President
Woodrow Wilson. |
Dec.
5, 1916 |
Joint
session |
Annual
Message |
President
Woodrow Wilson. |
Feb.
3, 1917 |
Joint
session |
Severing
diplomatic relations with Germany |
President
Woodrow Wilson. |
Feb.
14, 1917 |
Joint
session |
Counting
electoral votes |
N.A. |
Feb.
26, 1917 |
Joint
session |
Arming
of merchant ships |
President
Woodrow Wilson. |
65th
Congress
|
Mar.
5, 1917 |
Inauguration |
East
Portico |
President
Woodrow Wilson. |
Apr.
2, 1917 |
Joint
session |
War
with Germany |
President
Woodrow Wilson. |
Dec.
4, 1917 |
Joint
session |
Annual
Message/War with Austria-Hungary |
President
Woodrow Wilson. |
Jan.
4, 1918 |
Joint
session |
Federal
operation of transportation systems |
President
Woodrow Wilson. |
Jan.
8, 1918 |
Joint
session |
Program
for world's peace |
President
Woodrow Wilson. |
Feb.
11, 1918 |
Joint
session |
Peace
message |
President
Woodrow Wilson. |
May
27, 1918 |
Joint
session |
War
finance message |
President
Woodrow Wilson. |
Nov.
11, 1918 |
Joint
session |
Terms
of armistice signed by Germany |
President
Woodrow Wilson. |
Dec.
2, 1918 |
Joint
session |
Annual
Message |
President
Woodrow Wilson. |
Feb.
9, 1919 |
Joint
session |
Memorial
to Theodore Roosevelt |
Senator
Henry Cabot Lodge, Sr.; ceremony attended by former President William
Howard Taft. |
66th
Congress
|
Aug.
8, 1919 |
Joint
session |
Cost
of living message |
President
Woodrow Wilson. |
Sept.
18, 1919 |
Joint
session |
Address |
President
pro tempore Albert B. Cummins; Speaker Frederick H. Gillett; Representative
and former Speaker Champ Clark; General John J. Pershing. |
Feb.
9, 1921 |
Joint
session |
Counting
electoral votes |
N.A. |
67th
Congress
|
Mar.
4, 1921 |
Inauguration |
East
Portico |
President
Warren G. Harding. |
Apr.
12, 1921 |
Joint
session |
Federal
problem message |
President
Warren G. Harding. |
Dec.
6, 1921 |
Joint
session |
Annual
Message |
President
Warren G. Harding. |
Feb.
28, 1922 |
Joint
session |
Maintenance
of the merchant marine |
President
Warren G. Harding. |
Aug.
18, 1922 |
Joint
session |
Coal
and railroad message |
President
Warren G. Harding. |
Nov.
21, 1922 |
Joint
session |
Promotion
of the American merchant marine |
President
Warren G. Harding. |
Dec. 8, 1922 |
Joint
session |
Annual
Message18 |
President
Warren G. Harding. |
Feb.
7, 1923 |
Joint
session |
British
debt due to the United States |
President
Warren G. Harding. |
68th
Congress
|
Dec.
6, 1923 |
Joint
session |
Annual
Message |
President
Calvin Coolidge. |
Feb.
27, 1924 |
Joint
session |
Memorial
to Warren G. Harding |
Charles
Evans Hughes, Secretary of State; ceremony attended by President Calvin
Coolidge. |
Dec.
15, 1924 |
Joint
session |
Memorial
to Woodrow Wilson |
Dr.
Edwin Anderson Alderman, President of the University of Virginia;
ceremony attended by President Calvin Coolidge. |
Feb.
11, 1925 |
Joint
session |
Counting
electoral votes |
N.A. |
69th
Congress
|
Mar.
4, 1925 |
Inauguration |
East
Portico |
President
Calvin Coolidge. |
Feb.
22, 1927 |
Joint
session |
George
Washington birthday message |
President
Calvin Coolidge. |
70th
Congress
|
Feb.
13, 1929 |
Joint
session |
Counting
electoral votes |
N.A. |
71st
Congress
|
Mar.
4, 1929 |
Inauguration |
East
Portico |
President
Herbert Hoover. |
72nd
Congress
|
Feb.
22, 1932 |
Joint
session |
Bicentennial of George Washington's birth |
President
Herbert Hoover. |
Feb.
6, 1933 |
Joint
meeting |
Memorial
to Calvin Coolidge |
Arthur
Prentice Rugg, Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts;
ceremony attended by President Herbert Hoover. |
Feb.
8, 1933 |
Joint
session |
Counting
electoral votes |
N.A. |
73rd
Congress
|
Mar.
4, 1933 |
Inauguration |
East
Portico |
President
Franklin Delano Roosevelt. |
Jan.
3, 1934 |
Joint
session |
Annual
Message |
President
Franklin Delano Roosevelt. |
May
20, 1934 |
Joint
session |
100th
anniversary,
death of Lafayette |
Andre
de Laboulaye, Ambassador of France; President Franklin Delano Roosevelt;
ceremony attended by Count de Chambrun, great-grandson of Lafayette. |
74th
Congress
|
Jan.
4, 1935 |
Joint
session |
Annual
Message |
President
Franklin Delano Roosevelt. |
May
22, 1935 |
Joint
session |
Veto
message |
President
Franklin Delano Roosevelt. |
Jan.
3, 1936 |
Joint
session |
Annual
Message |
President
Franklin Delano Roosevelt. |
75th
Congress
|
Jan.
6, 1937 |
Joint
session |
Counting
electoral votes |
N.A. |
Jan.
6, 1937 |
Joint
session |
Annual
Message |
President
Franklin Delano Roosevelt. |
Jan. 20, 1937 |
Inauguration |
East
Portico |
President
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Vice President John Nance Garner.19 |
Jan.
3, 1938 |
Joint
session |
Annual
Message |
President
Franklin Delano Roosevelt. |
76th
Congress
|
Jan.
4, 1939 |
Joint
session |
Annual
Message |
President
Franklin Delano Roosevelt. |
Mar.
4, 1939 |
Joint
session |
Sesquicentennial of the 1st Congress |
President
Franklin Delano Roosevelt. |
June 9, 1939 |
Joint
meeting |
Reception20 |
Elizabeth,
King and George VI and Queen of the United Kingdom. |
Sept.
21, 1939 |
Joint
session |
Neutrality
address |
President
Franklin Delano Roosevelt. |
Jan.
3, 1940 |
Joint
session |
Annual
Message |
President
Franklin Delano Roosevelt. |
May
16, 1940 |
Joint
session |
National
defense message |
President
Franklin Delano Roosevelt. |
77th
Congress
|
Jan.
6, 1941 |
Joint
session |
Counting
electoral votes |
N.A. |
Jan.
6, 1941 |
Joint
session |
Annual
Message |
President
Franklin Delano Roosevelt. |
Jan.
20, 1941 |
Joint
session |
Inauguration, East Portico |
President
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Vice President Henry A. Wallace. |
Dec.
8, 1941 |
Joint
session |
War
with Japan |
President
Franklin Delano Roosevelt. |
Dec. 26, 1941 |
Joint
meeting |
Address21 |
Winston
Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. |
Jan.
6, 1942 |
Joint
session |
Annual
Message |
President
Franklin Delano Roosevelt. |
77th
Congress
|
Jan.
7, 1943 |
Joint
session |
Annual
Message |
President
Franklin Delano Roosevelt. |
May
19, 1943 |
Joint
meeting |
Address |
Winston
Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. |
Nov.
18, 1943 |
Joint
meeting |
Moscow
Conference |
Cordell
Hull, Secretary of State. |
77th
Congress
|
Jan.
6, 1945 |
Joint
session |
Counting
electoral votes |
N.A. |
Jan.
6, 1945 |
Joint
session |
Annual
Message |
President
Roosevelt was not present. His message was read before the Joint Session
of Congress. |
Jan. 20, 1945 |
Inauguration |
South
Portico, The White House22 |
President
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Vice President Harry S Truman. |
Mar.
1, 1945 |
Joint
session |
Yalta
Conference |
President
Franklin Delano Roosevelt. |
Apr.
16, 1945 |
Joint
session |
Prosecution
of the War |
President
Harry S Truman. |
May
21, 1945 |
Joint
session |
Bestowal
of Congressional Medal of Honor on Tech. Sgt. Jake William Lindsey |
General
George C. Marshall, Chief of Staff, U.S. Army; President Harry S Truman. |
June
18, 1945 |
Joint
meeting |
Address |
General
Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Commander, Allied Expeditionary Force. |
Oct.
5, 1945 |
Joint
meeting |
Address |
Admiral
Chester W. Nimitz, Commander-in-Chief, Pacific Fleet. |
Oct.
23, 1945 |
Joint
session |
Universal
military training message |
President
Harry S Truman. |
Nov.
13, 1945 |
Joint
meeting |
Address |
Clement
R. Attlee, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. |
May
25, 1946 |
Joint
session |
Railroad
strike message |
President
Harry S Truman. |
July
1, 1946 |
Joint
session |
Memorial
to Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
John
Winant, U.S. Representative on the Economic and Social Council of
the United Nations; ceremony attended by President Harry S Truman
and Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt. |