Winston Churchill made more addresses to Congress than any other individual. He
addressed joint meetings in 1941, 1943, and 1952. Nelson Mandela of South Africa
has addressed Congress twice, in 1990 and 1994. Yitzak Rabin of Israel also addressed
joint meetings of Congress on two occasions, in 1976 and 1994.
|
Date
|
Joint meeting and joint session addresses by foreign heads of state and dignitaries
|
|
10/13/2011
|
President Lee Myung-bak of Korea addressed a joint meeting of Congress.
|
|
5/24/2011
|
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu of Israel addressed a joint meeting of Congress.
|
|
3/09/2011
|
Prime Minister Julia Gillard of Australia addressed a joint meeting of Congress.
|
|
05/20/2010
|
President Felipe Calderón Hinojosa of Mexico addresses a joint meeting of
Congress. (CD.)
|
|
11/03/2009
|
Dr. Angela Merkel, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany addresses a joint
meeting of Congress.
|
|
03/04/2009
|
Gordon Brown, Prime Minster of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern
Ireland addresses a joint meeting of Congress.
|
|
04/30/2008
|
Bertie Ahern, Prime Minister of Ireland addresses a joint meeting of Congress.
|
|
11/07/2007
|
Nicolas Sarkozy, President of the French Republic addresses a joint meeting of Congress.
|
|
03/07/2007
|
King Abdullah II Bin Al Hussein, King of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan addresses
a joint meeting of Congress.
|
|
07/26/2006
|
Dr. Nouri Al-Maliki, Prime Minister of Iraq addresses a joint meeting of Congress.
|
|
06/07/2006
|
Vaira Vike-Freiberga, President of Latvia addresses a joint meeting of Congress.
|
|
05/24/2006
|
Ehud Olmert, Prime Minister of Israel addresses a joint meeting of Congress.
|
|
03/15/2006
|
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President of the Republic of Liberia addresses a joint meeting
of Congress.
|
|
03/01/2006
|
Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi of the Republic of Italy addresses a joint meeting
of Congress.
|
|
07/19/2005
|
Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister of India addresses a joint meeting of Congress.
|
|
04/06/2005
|
Viktor Yushchenko, President of Ukraine addresses a joint meeting of Congress.
|
|
09/23/2004
|
Interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi of the Republic of Iraq addresses a joint meeting
of Congress.
|
|
06/15/2004
|
President Hamid Karzai of the Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan addresses
a joint meeting of Congress.
|
|
02/04/2004
|
President Jose Maria Aznar of the Government of Spain addresses a joint meeting
of Congress.
|
|
07/17/2003
|
Prime Minister Tony Blair of the United Kingdom addresses a joint meeting of Congress.
|
|
06/12/2002
|
Prime Minister John Howard of Australia addresses a joint meeting of Congress. The
scheduled address by Prime Minister John Howard of Australia to a joint meeting
of Congress on 09/12/2001 was cancelled. (CD.)3
|
|
09/06/2001
|
President Vicente Fox of Mexico addresses a joint meeting of Congress. (CD.)
|
|
09/14/2000
|
Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee of India addresses a joint meeting of Congress.
(CD.)
|
|
07/15/1998
|
Emil Constantinescu, President of Romania, addresses a joint meeting of Congress.
(CD.)
|
|
06/10/1998
|
Kim Dae-jung, President of South Korea, addresses a joint meeting of Congress. (CD.)
|
|
02/27/1997
|
Eduardo Frei, President of Chile, addresses a joint meeting of Congress. (CD.)
|
|
09/11/1996
|
John Bruton, Prime Minister of Ireland, addresses a joint meeting of Congress. (CD.)
|
|
07/10/1996
|
Benyamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel, addresses a joint meeting of Congress.
(CD.)
|
|
02/01/1996
|
Jacques Chirac, President of France, addresses a joint meeting of Congress. (CD.)
|
|
12/12/1995
|
Shimon Peres, Prime Minister of Israel, addresses a joint meeting of Congress. (CD.)
|
|
06/26/1995
|
Kim Yong-sam, President of South Korea, addresses a joint meeting of Congress. (CD.)
|
|
10/06/1994
|
Nelson Mandela, President of South Africa, addresses a joint meeting of Congress.
(CD.)
|
|
07/26/1994
|
Hussein I, King of Jordan, and Yitzhak Rabin, Prime Minister of Israel, address
a joint meeting of Congress. (CD.)
|
|
05/18/1994
|
Narasimba Rao, Prime Minister of India, addresses a joint meeting of Congress. (CD.)
|
|
06/17/1992
|
Boris Yeltsin, President of Russia, addresses a joint meeting of Congress. (CD.)
|
|
04/30/1992
|
Richard von Weizsäcker, President of Germany, addresses a joint meeting of
Congress. (CD.)
|
|
11/14/1991
|
Carlos Saul Menem, President of Argentina, addresses a joint meeting of Congress.
(CD.)
|
|
05/16/1991
|
Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom, addresses a joint meeting of Congress.
(CD.)
|
|
04/16/1991
|
Violeta B. de Chamorro, President of Nicaragua, addresses a joint meeting of Congress.
(CD.)
|
|
06/26/1990
|
Nelson Mandela, Deputy President of the African National Congress, South Africa,
addresses a joint meeting of Congress. (CD.)
|
|
03/07/1990
|
Giulio Andreotti, President of the Council of Ministers of Italy, addresses a joint
meeting of Congress. (CD.)
|
|
02/21/1990
|
Vaclav Hável, President of Czechoslovakia, addresses a joint meeting of Congress.
(CD.)
|
|
11/15/1989
|
Lech Walesa, chairman of SolidarnoϾ labor union, Poland, addresses
a joint meeting of Congress. (CD.)
|
|
10/18/1989
|
Roh Tae Woo, President of South Korea, addresses a joint meeting of Congress. (CD.)
|
|
10/04/1989
|
Carlos Salinas de Gortari, President of Mexico, addresses a joint meeting of Congress.
(CD.)
|
|
06/07/1989
|
Benazir Bhutto, Prime Minister of Pakistan, addresses a joint meeting of Congress.
(CD.)
|
|
06/23/1988
|
Robert Hawke, Prime Minister of Australia, addresses a joint meeting of Congress.
(CD.)
|
|
04/27/1988
|
Brian Mulroney, Prime Minister of Canada, addresses a joint meeting of Congress.
(CD.)
|
|
11/10/1987
|
Chaim Herzog, President of Israel, addresses a joint meeting of Congress. (CD.)
|
|
09/18/1986
|
Corazon C. Aquino, President of the Philippines, addresses a joint meeting of Congress.
(CD.)
|
|
09/11/1986
|
Jose Sarney, President of Brazil, addresses a joint meeting of Congress. (CD.)
|
|
10/09/1985
|
Lee Kuan Yew, Prime Minister of Singapore, addresses a joint meeting of Congress.
(CD.)
|
|
06/13/1985
|
Rajiv Gandhi, Prime Minister of India, addresses a joint meeting of Congress. (CD.)
|
|
03/20/1985
|
Raul Alfonsin, President Argentina, addresses a joint meeting of Congress. (CD.)
|
|
03/06/1985
|
Bettino Craxi, President of the Council of Ministers of Italy,addresses a joint
meeting of Congress. (CD.)
|
|
02/20/1985
|
Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, addresses a joint meeting
of Congress. (CD.)
|
|
05/16/1984
|
Miguel de la Madrid, President of Mexico, addresses a joint meeting of Congress.
(CD.)
|
|
03/22/1984
|
François Mitterand, President of France, addresses a joint meeting of Congress.
(CD.)
|
|
03/15/1984
|
Dr. Garett FitzGerald, Prime Minister of Ireland, addresses a joint meeting of Congress.
(CD.)
|
|
10/05/1983
|
Karl Carstens, President of West Germany, addresses a joint meeting of Congress.
(CD.)
|
|
04/21/1982
|
Beatrix, Queen of the Netherlands, addresses a joint meeting of Congress. (CD.)
|
|
02/22/1977
|
Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau of Canada addresses a joint meeting of Congress.
(CD.)
|
|
09/23/1976
|
President William R. Tolbert, Jr., of Liberia addresses a joint meeting of Congress.
(CD.)
|
|
06/02/1976
|
Juan Carlos I, King of Spain, addresses a joint meeting of Congress. (CD.)
|
|
05/18/1976
|
President Valery Giscard d’Estaing of France addresses a joint meeting of
Congress. (CD.)
|
|
03/17/1976
|
Prime Minister Liam Cosgrave of Ireland addresses a joint meeting of Congress. (CD.)
|
|
01/28/1976
|
Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin of Israel addresses a joint meeting of Congress. (CD.)
|
|
11/05/1975
|
President Anwar El Sadat of Egypt addresses a joint meeting of Congress. (CD.)
|
|
06/17/1975
|
President Walter Scheel of West Germany addresses a joint meeting of Congress. (CD.)
|
|
06/15/1972
|
President Luis Echeverria Alvarez of Mexico addresses a joint meeting of Congress.
(CD.)
|
|
06/03/1970
|
President Rafael Caldera of Venezuela addresses a joint meeting of Congress. (CD.)
|
|
02/25/1970
|
President Georges Pompidou of France addresses a joint meeting of Congress. (CD.)
|
|
10/27/1967
|
President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz of Mexico addresses a joint meeting of Congress. (CD.)
|
|
09/15/1966
|
President Ferdinand E. Marcos of the Philippines addresses a joint meeting of Congress.
(CD.)
|
|
05/28/1964
|
President Eamon de Valera of Ireland addresses a joint meeting of Congress. (CD.)
|
|
01/15/1964
|
President Antonio Segni of Italy addresses a joint meeting of Congress. (CD.)
|
|
04/12/1962
|
Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, Shahanshah of Iran, addresses a joint meeting of Congress.
(CD.)
|
|
04/04/1962
|
President Joao Goulart of Brazil addresses a joint meeting of Congress. ( CR
.)4
|
|
9/21/1961
|
President Manuel Prado of Peru addresses a joint meeting of Congress. ( CR
.)
|
|
07/12/1961
|
President Mohammad Ayub Khan of Pakistan addresses a joint meeting of Congress.
(CD.)
|
|
05/04/1961
|
President Habib Bourguiba of Tunisia addresses a joint meeting of Congress. (CD.)
|
|
06/29/1960
|
Bhumibol Adulyadej, King of Thailand, addresses a joint meeting of Congress. (CD.)
|
|
04/28/1960
|
Mahendra, King of Nepal addresses a joint meeting of Congress. (CD.)
|
|
04/25/1960
|
President Charles de Gaulle of France addresses a joint meeting of Congress. (CD.)
|
|
04/06/1960
|
President Alberto Lleras-Camargo of Columbia addresses a joint meeting of Congress.
(CD.)
|
|
05/12/1959
|
Baudouin, King of the Belgians, addresses a joint meeting of Congress. (CD.)
|
|
03/18/1959
|
President Sean T. O’Kelly of Ireland addresses a joint meeting of Congress.
(CD.)
|
|
03/11/1959
|
President Jose Maria Lemus of El Salvador addresses a joint meeting of Congress.
(CD.)
|
|
01/21/1959
|
President Arturo Frondizi of Argentina addresses a joint meeting of Congress. (CD.)
|
|
06/18/1958
|
President Carlos F. Garcia of the Philippines addresses a joint meeting of Congress.
(CD.)
|
|
06/05/1958
|
President Theodor Heuss of West Germany addresses a joint meeting of Congress. (CD.)
|
|
05/09/1957
|
President Ngo Dinh Diem of Vietnam addresses a joint meeting of Congress. (CD.)
|
|
05/17/1956
|
President Sukarno of Indonesia addresses a joint meeting of Congress. (CD.)
|
|
02/29/1956
|
President Giovanni Gronchi of Italy addresses a joint meeting of Congress. (CD.)
|
|
01/27/1955
|
President Paul E. Magliore of Haiti addresses a joint meeting of Congress. (CD.)
|
|
07/28/1954
|
President Syngman Rhee of South Korea addresses a joint meeting of Congress. (CD.)
|
|
05/28/1954
|
Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia addresses a joint meeting of Congress. (CD.)
|
|
05/04/1954
|
Governor General Vincent Massey of Canada addresses a joint meeting of Congress.
(CD.)
|
|
01/29/1954
|
President Celal Bayar of Turkey addresses a joint meeting of Congress. (CD.)
|
|
04/03/1952
|
Queen Juliana of the Netherlands addresses a joint meeting of Congress. (CD.)
|
|
01/17/1952
|
Prime Minister Winston Churchill of the United Kingdom addresses a joint meeting
of Congress. (CD.)
|
|
09/24/1951
|
Prime Minister Alcide de Gasperi of Italy addresses a joint meeting of Congress.
(CD.)
|
|
06/21/1951
|
President Galo Plaza of Ecuador addresses a joint meeting of Congress. (CD.)
|
|
04/02/1951
|
President Vincent Auriol of France addresses a joint meeting of Congress. (CD.)
|
|
05/19/1949
|
President Gaspar Dutra of Brazil addresses a joint meeting of Congress. (CD.)
|
|
04/19/1948
|
Ambassador Guillermo Belt of Cuba addresses a joint session of Congress held to
memorialize the 50 th anniversary of Cuban independence. ( CR .)5
|
|
05/01/1947
|
President Miguel Aleman of Mexico addresses a joint meeting of Congress. (CD.)
|
|
11/13/1945
|
Prime Minister Clement R. Attlee of the United Kingdom addresses a joint meeting
of Congress. (CD.)
|
|
05/19/1943
|
Prime Minister Winston Churchill of the United Kingdom addresses a joint meeting
of Congress. (CD.)
|
|
12/26/1941
|
Prime Minister Winston Churchill of the United Kingdom addresses a joint meeting
of Congress. (CD.)
|
|
05/20/1934
|
Ambassador Andre’ de Laboulaye of France addresses a joint session of Congress
held to memorialize the centennial anniversary of the death of Lafayette. ( CR
.)6
|
|
12/18/1874
|
A joint meeting of Congress is held to receive King Kalakaua of Hawaii. (CD.)
|