State of the Union Addresses

by Grover Cleveland

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.