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The first state-of-the-union address to be read to Congress in Washington...
The first state-of-the-union address to be read to Congress in Washington...
Item # 703666
December 11, 1800
THOMAS'S MASSACHUSETTS SPY OR WORCESTER GAZETTE, Dec. 11, 1800 Page 3 has the full text of President John Adams' state of the union address and is signed in type: JOHN ADAMS.
This was the first state-of-the-union address to be given before the joint session of Congress at the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C., (Washington's terms were in New York & Phila.) and the last address to be given in person for over 100 years, as Thomas Jefferson, the next President, thought doing so in person was too monarchical--a tradition followed by every President from Jefferson through Taft. Woodrow Wilson returned to follow the lead of Presidents Washington and Adams in 1913.
Four pages, nice condition.
Category: Pre-Civil War
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