Subjects – Wilson, Woodrow
President George Washington delivered his first regular Annual Message to a Joint Session of Congress
January 08, 1790
On this date, George Washington delivered his first regular Annual Message to a Joint Session of Congress.
President John Adams’s Annual Message of 1800
November 22, 1800
On this date, President John Adams delivered his fourth annual message to a Joint Session of the 4th Congress (1799–1801) in the new Capitol Building in Washington, D.C.
Speaker of the House James Beauchamp “Champ” Clark of Missouri
March 07, 1850
James Beauchamp “Champ” Clark of Missouri, the 39th Speaker of the House (1911–1919), was born in Lawrenceburg, Kentucky.
Baby-faced Representative William F. Murray of Massachusetts
April 04, 1911
On this date, 29-year-old Representative William F. Murray of Massachusetts was sworn in as the 62nd Congress’s (1911–1913) youngest Representative.
The “Comebacks” of the 64th Congress
December 05, 1915
As the 64th Congress (1915–1917) began to organize itself, the House of Representatives experienced a monumental return of former Members to the House as more than nearly one-third of its Membership had not served is the prior Congress.
Funding the expansion of rural post roads
July 11, 1916
President Woodrow Wilson signed into law a measure “to provide that the United States shall aid the States in the construction of rural post roads,” otherwise known as the Rural Post Roads Act of 1916.
President Woodrow Wilson’s Joint Session message appealing for the avoidance of a national railroad strike
August 29, 1916
On this date during the 64th Congress (1915–1917), President Woodrow Wilson addressed a Joint Session to discuss a looming national railroad crisis.
President Woodrow Wilson’s Joint Session outlining his vision for a program for world peace
January 08, 1918
President Woodrow Wilson delivered an address outlining his vision for a program for world peace to a Joint Sessions and Meetings of Congress in 1918.
President Woodrow Wilson’s Joint Session regarding the Central Powers’ response to his Fourteen Points peace plan
February 11, 1918
On this date, President Woodrow Wilson addressed a Joint Session of Congress in the House Chamber regarding the Central Powers’ response to his outline of the Fourteen Points peace plan (which Wilson had delivered to Congress a month earlier).
President Woodrow Wilson’s Joint Session Address Regarding the World War I Armistice
November 11, 1918
On this date, President Woodrow Wilson dramatically announced to a Joint Session of Congress, “The war thus comes to an end.”
A memorial tribute to the late President Theodore Roosevelt in the House Chamber
February 09, 1919
A Joint Session of Congress, serving as a memorial tribute to the late President Theodore Roosevelt, was held in the House Chamber.
President Woodrow Wilson’s 1919 Annual Message
May 20, 1919
On this date, a White House emissary read President Woodrow Wilson’s Annual Message (later known as the State of the Union) to the House.
The Volstead Act
October 28, 1919
On this date, the 66th Congress (1919–1921) overrode President Woodrow Wilson’s veto of the National Prohibition Act.
A Joint Session of Congress memorializing President Woodrow Wilson
December 15, 1924
On this date, Dr. Edwin Anderson Alderman, president of the University of Virginia, addressed a Joint Session of Congress memorializing his close friend, the late President Woodrow Wilson.
The first evening Annual Message
January 03, 1936
On this date, during the second session of the 74th Congress (1935–1937), President Franklin D. Roosevelt held the first nighttime Annual Message.