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  2. 1861 State of the Union Address - Wikipedia

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    The 1861 State of the Union Address was written by the 16th president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, and delivered to the 37th United States Congress, on Tuesday, December 3, 1861, amid the American Civil War, which had begun earlier in the year. [ 1] This was Lincoln's first State of the Union Address and the first since the start of ...

  3. State of the Union - Wikipedia

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    The actual term "State of the Union" first emerged in 1934 when Franklin D. Roosevelt used the phrase, becoming its generally accepted name since 1947. [11] State of the Union (Four Freedoms) (January 6, 1941) Franklin Delano Roosevelt 's January 6, 1941 State of the Union Address, introducing the theme of the.

  4. List of State of the Union addresses - Wikipedia

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    The State of the Union is the constitutionally mandated annual report by the president of the United States, the head of the U.S. federal executive departments, to the United States Congress, the U.S. federal legislative body. [1] William Henry Harrison (1841) and James A. Garfield (1881) died in their first year in office without delivering a ...

  5. 1794 State of the Union Address - Wikipedia

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    The 1794 State of the Union Address was delivered by the 1st President of the United States, George Washington, to a joint session of the Third United States Congress on November 19, 1794. The speech came in the aftermath of the Whiskey Rebellion , an armed insurrection in the western counties of Pennsylvania against the federal excise tax on ...

  6. Abraham Lincoln's first inaugural address - Wikipedia

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    t. e. Abraham Lincoln 's first inaugural address was delivered on Monday, March 4, 1861, as part of his taking of the oath of office for his first term as the sixteenth president of the United States. The speech, delivered at the United States Capitol, was primarily addressed to the people of the South and was intended to succinctly state ...

  7. List of U.S. states by date of admission to the Union - Wikipedia

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    Missouri Compromise, 1820 federal statute enabling the admission of Missouri (a slave state) and Maine (a free state) into the Union. Toledo War, 1835–36 boundary dispute between Ohio and the adjoining Michigan Territory, which delayed Michigan's admission to the Union. Texas annexation, the 1845 incorporation of the Republic of Texas into ...

  8. 1862 State of the Union Address - Wikipedia

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    The 1862 State of the Union Address was written by the 16th president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, and delivered to the 37th United States Congress, on Monday, December 1, 1862, amid the ongoing American Civil War. [ 1 ] This address was Lincoln's longest State of the Union Address, consisting of 8,385 words. [ 2 ]

  9. 1863 State of the Union Address - Wikipedia

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    The 1863 State of the Union Address was written by the 16th president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, and delivered to the United States Congress, on Tuesday, December 8, 1863, amid the ongoing American Civil War. He said, "The efforts of disloyal citizens of the United States to involve us in foreign wars to aid an inexcusable ...