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State of the Union Addresses of Grover Cleveland



The addresses are separated by three asterisks: ***

Dates of addresses by Grover Cleveland in this eBook:

  December 8, 1885
  December 6, 1886
  December 6, 1887
  December 3, 1888

  December 4, 1893
  December 3, 1894
  December 2, 1895
  December 7, 1896


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State of the Union Address
Grover Cleveland
December 8, 1885

To the Congress of the United States:

Your assembling is clouded by a sense of public bereavement, caused by the
recent and sudden death of Thomas A. Hendricks, Vice-President of the
United States. His distinguished public services, his complete integrity
and devotion to every duty, and his personal virtues will find honorable
record in his country's history.

Ample and repeated proofs of the esteem and confidence in which he was held
by his fellow-countrymen were manifested by his election to offices of the
most important trust and highest dignity; and at length, full of years and
honors, he has been laid at rest amid universal sorrow and benediction.

The Constitution, which requires those chosen to legislate for the people
to annually meet in the discharge of their solemn trust, also requires the
President to give to Congress information of the