Visiting Heads of State
A list heads of state and dignitaries who have visited Monticello.
Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Phillip on the West Lawn during their 1976 visit to Monticello; photographic image TJF Archives.
The chart below provides a selection of visits to Monticello by heads of state (past and present) or persons on state visits.
| Year | Month/Day | Name and 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 Edith 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 Račan of Croatia |
| Nov. | Prime Minister Lionel Jospin of France | |
| 2003 | May | President Mary McAleese of Ireland |
| Oct. | First Lady Jolanta Kwaśniewska of Poland | |
| 2004 | Jan. | President Fernando Henrique 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 |
| 2017 | Apr. | Ambassador U Aung Lynn, Ambassador from Burma (Myanmar) to the United States |
| May | President of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos | |
| Oct. | Ambassador Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry, Ambassador of Pakistan to the United States | |
| 2020 | June | Ambassador Philippe Étienne, Ambassador of France to the United States |
| Sep. | Ambassador Dina Kawar, Ambassador of Jordan to the United States | |
| 2023 | Apr. | The Honourable Malcolm Turnbull, former Prime Minister of Australia |