The 1790 State of the Union Address was given by President George Washington in New York City. It was the first annual address given by a president in the Senat

Reproduction of the original: State of the Union Addresses by Franklin D. Roosevelt

?A rich, thoughtful, and systematic look at the rhetoric and evolving impact of state of the union addresses.... invaluable." ?Bryan W. Marshall, Miami Universi

This speech was made in 1835. Jackson devoted a large part of it to the resolution of a debt owed by France to the American people of approximately 50m francs.

The following book collates State of the Union Addresses delivered by the 40th U.S. president, Ronald Reagan, who was the first to begin the tradition. The Stat