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The chart below provides a selection of visits to Monticello by heads of state (past & present) or persons on state visits.

Year Month/Day

Name & Title

1809  Aug 24 President James Madison and First Lady Dolley Madison
1811  Sep. 14 President James Madison and First Lady Dolley Madison
1815  Apr. or May President James Madison and First Lady Dolley Madison
1825  Aug. President James Monroe
1888  June 27 President Grover Cleveland
1903  June 17 President Theodore Roosevelt and First Lady Enid Roosevelt
1936  July 4 President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
1947  July 4 President Harry S. Truman
   Sep. Prime Minister Sutan Sjahrir of Indonesia
1956  May President Sukarno of Indonesia
1958  June 19 President Theodor Heuss of the Federal Republic of Germany
1963  July 4 Sir Robert Menzies, Prime Minister of Australia
1976  July 4 President Gerald R. Ford
   July 10 Queen Elizabeth II
1984  Apr. President Ronald Reagan
   Apr. His Highness the Aga Khan
1985   King Constantine of Greece
1987  Feb. President Jimmy Carter
1988   Queen Anne-Marie of Greece
    President Delvalle of Panama
1989  Sep. His Royal Highness El Hassan Bin Talal, the Crown Prince of Jordan
   Sep. His Royal Majesty Crown Prince Philippe of Belgium
   Sep. President and Mrs. George H. W. Bush
1990  Sep. President Árpád Göncz of Hungary
1991  Feb. Queen Margrethe of Denmark
   Sep. Prime Minister Lojze Peterle of Slovenia
   Oct. President Zhelyu Zhelev of Bulgaria
1992  Jan. President Mário Soares of Portugal
   July President René Felber of Switzerland
   July President Rafael Ángel Calderón Fournier of Costa Rica
   July President Violeta Chamorro of Nicaragua
   July President Alfredo Cristiani of El Salvador
   July Prime Minister George Price of Belize
1993  Jan. President-Elect William Jefferson Clinton
   April President Mikhail Gorbachev
   May His Holiness the Dalai Lama of Tibet
1994  Apr. President Otto Stich of Switzerland
   June Their Majesties Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko of Japan
1996   Lady Margaret Thatcher of Great Britain
1998  Sep. Prime Minister Steingrímur Hermannson of Iceland
   Dec. Her Highness Sheikha Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned of Qatar
2002  June Prime Minister Ivica Raƒçan of Croatia
   Nov. Prime Minister Lionel Jospin of France
2003  May President Mary McAleese of Ireland
   Oct. First Lady Jolanta Kwa≈õniewska of Poland
2004  Jan. President Fernando Cardoso of Brazil
   June President Girma Wolde-Giorgis of Ethiopia
2006  Sep. President Mohammad Khatami of Iran
2008  Apr. First Minister Alex Salmond of Scotland
   Apr. Prime Minister Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland of Norway
   July President George W. Bush
2014  Feb. President Barack Obama
2014  Feb. President François Hollande of France
2016  Mar. Prime Minister Enda Kenny of the Republic of Ireland