Illustration of the first state dinner at the White House. David Kalākaua, monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaii meeting with President Ulysses S. Grant.

A state dinner in the United States is a formal dinner held in honor of a foreign head of state, such as a king, queen, president, or any head of government. It is hosted by the President of the United States and is usually held in the State Dining Room at the White House in Washington, D.C.[1] Other formal dinners for important people of other nations, such as a prince or princess, are called official dinners, the difference being that the federal government does not pay for them. Nowadays these dinners are more often black tie rather than white tie (see formal wear).

The first state dinner was held on December 22, 1874, by President Ulysses S. Grant to welcome King Kalākaua of the Kingdom of Hawai'i.[2][3][4]

United States state dinners include a variety of dining events across the world, including conferences and summits. They influence many nations and their dining events. State dinners today have a lot more political significance than formerly, and are notably attended by prime ministers and presidents accompanied by politicians, entertainment and security services.

Ulysses S. Grant

Date Visiting Country Guest(s) of Honor Social Secretary
December 22, 1874[2]  Hawaii Kalākaua of Hawai'i

Herbert Hoover

Date Visiting Country Guest(s) of Honor Social Secretary
April 29, 1931[5]  Thailand Prajadhipok of Thailand Mary Randolph
October 22, 1931[6]  France Pierre Laval

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Date Visiting Country Guest(s) of Honor Social Secretary
October 10, 1933[7]  Panama Harmodio Arias Madrid Edith Benham Helm
June 8, 1939[8]  United Kingdom George VI of the United Kingdom
February 12, 1941[9]  Luxembourg Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg
July 7, 1942[10]  Colombia Alfonso López Pumarejo
December 8, 1942[11]  Cuba Fulgencio Batista
June 9, 1943[12]  Paraguay Higinio Moríñigo
October 14, 1943[13]  Haiti Élie Lescot
January 19, 1944[14]  Venezuela Isaías Medina Angarita
June 7, 1944[15]  Poland Stanisław Mikołajczyk
August 24, 1944[16]  Iceland Sveinn Björnsson
March 23, 1945[17]  Canada Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone

Harry S. Truman

President Harry S. Truman and First Lady Bess Truman with Brazilian President Eurico Gaspar Dutra and other dignitaries at a state dinner (1949)
Date Visiting Country Guest(s) of Honor Social Secretary
August 22, 1945[6]  France Charles de Gaulle
November 10, 1945  Canada

 United Kingdom

William Lyon Mackenzie King

Clement Attlee

Edith Benham Helm
April 29, 1947[18]  Mexico Miguel Alemán Valdés
April 4, 1949[19][20]  Belgium

 Canada

 Denmark

 France

 Iceland

 Italy

 Luxembourg

 Netherlands

 Portugal

 United Kingdom

Paul-Henri Spaak, Robert Silvercruys [de]

Lester B. Pearson, Humphrey Hume Wrong

Gustav Rasmussen, Henrik Kauffmann

Robert Schuman, Henri Bonnet

Bjarni Benediktsson, Thor Thors

Carlo Sforza, Alberto Tarchiani

Joseph Bech, Hugues Le Gallais

Dirk Stikker, Eelco van Kleffens

Jose Caeiro da Mata, Pedro Teotónio Pereira

Ernest Bevin, (Baron) Oliver Franks

May 18, 1949[21]  Brazil Eurico Gaspar Dutra
August 8, 1949[22]  Philippines Elpidio Quirino
November 16, 1949[23]  Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
March 28, 1951[6][24]  France Vincent Auriol
June 20, 1951[25]  Ecuador Galo Plaza
April 2, 1952[26]  Netherlands Juliana of the Netherlands

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight D. Eisenhower (far right), Nikita Khrushchev, and their wives at a state dinner (1959)
Date Visiting Country Guest(s) of Honor Social Secretary
October 28, 1953[27]  Greece Paul of Greece Mary Jane McCaffrey
January 27, 1954[28]  Turkey Celâl Bayar
May 26, 1954[29]  Ethiopia Haile Selassie of Ethiopia
July 26, 1954[30]  South Korea Syngman Rhee
October 18, 1954[31]  Liberia William Tubman
January 26, 1955[32]  Haiti Paul Magloire
May 8, 1957[33]  South Vietnam Ngo Dinh Diem
October 17, 1957[34]  Canada Elizabeth II of Canada
June 4, 1958[35]  West Germany Theodor Heuss
June 17, 1958[36]  Philippines Carlos P. Garcia
January 20, 1959[37]  Argentina Arturo Frondizi
March 10, 1959[38]  El Salvador José María Lemus
March 17, 1959[39]  Ireland Seán T. O'Kelly
May 11, 1959[40]  Belgium Baudouin of Belgium
September 15, 1959[41]  Soviet Union Nikita Khrushchev
October 9, 1959[42]  Mexico Adolfo López Mateos
October 26, 1959[43]  Guinea Ahmed Sékou Touré
April 5, 1960[44]  Colombia Alberto Lleras Camargo
April 22, 1960[6][45]  France Charles de Gaulle
April 27, 1960[46]    Nepal Mahendra of Nepal
June 3, 1960[47]  Canada John Diefenbaker
June 28, 1960  Thailand Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand
September 27, 1960[48]  Japan Prince Akihito
October 11, 1960[49]  Denmark Frederick IX of Denmark

John F. Kennedy

President Habib Bourguiba of Tunisia and President John F. Kennedy with their wives and General Chester Victor Clifton Jr. at the state dinner in 1961.
Date Visiting Country Guest(s) of Honor Social Secretary Entertainment
May 3, 1961[50]  Tunisia Habib Bourguiba Letitia Baldrige
July 11, 1961[51]  Pakistan Ayub Khan National Symphony Orchestra
September 19, 1961[52]  Peru Manuel Prado Ugarteche Roberta Peters, Jerome Hines
October 4, 1961[53]  Sudan Ibrahim Abboud American Shakespeare Theatre
November 7, 1961[54]  India Jawaharlal Nehru
February 13, 1962[55]  Saudi Arabia Saud of Saudi Arabia
April 11, 1962[56]  Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi Ballets: U.S.A., Jerome Robbins
May 22, 1962[57]  Ivory Coast Félix Houphouët-Boigny American Ballet Theatre
February 19, 1963[58]  Venezuela Rómulo Betancourt
March 27, 1963[59]  Morocco Hassan II of Morocco New York City Center Light Opera Company
April 30, 1963[60]  Luxembourg Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg Basil Rathbone, Consort Players
June 3, 1963[61]  India Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Washington National Opera
September 5, 1963[62]  Afghanistan Mohammed Zahir Shah Military bands
October 1, 1963[63]  Ethiopia Haile Selassie of Ethiopia Joffrey Ballet
October 15, 1963[64]  Ireland Seán Lemass

Lyndon B. Johnson

Lyndon B. Johnson, Levi Eshkol, and their wives enter a state dinner (1964)
Date Visiting Country Guest(s) of Honor Location of Dinner Social Secretary Entertainment
December 29, 1963[4][65]  West Germany Ludwig Erhard LBJ Ranch Pianist Van Cliburn
June 1, 1964[66]  Israel Levi Eshkol White House
October 5, 1964[67]  Philippines Diosdado Macapagal Bess Abell Harkness Ballet
March 29, 1965[68]  Upper Volta Maurice Yaméogo Dancers from the American Institute of Indian Art
May 17, 1965[69]  South Korea Park Chung-hee Walter Trampler
December 14, 1965[70]  Pakistan Ayub Khan
June 21, 1966[71]  Saudi Arabia Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud Fireworks
September 8, 1966[72]  Burma Ne Win
September 14, 1966[73]  Philippines Ferdinand Marcos New York City Center Light Opera Company
September 28, 1966 (luncheon rather than dinner)[74]  Senegal Leopold Sedar Senghor
February 14, 1967[75]  Ethiopia Haile Selassie Singers Richard Tucker and Nedda Casei
April 3, 1967[76]  Turkey Cevdet Sunay Opera Company of Boston
June 27, 1967  Thailand Bhumibol Adulydej of Thailand
October 26, 1967[77]  Mexico Gustavo Diaz-Ordaz Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass
November 1, 1967[78]    Nepal King Mahendra Charlie Byrd
March 20, 1968[79]  Paraguay General Alfredo Stroessner
April 25, 1968[80]  Norway Olav V Jeoffrey Ballet
May 15, 1968[81]  Tunisia Habib Bourguiba Geoffrey Holder and Carmen de Lavallade
December 11, 1968[82]  Kuwait Sabah al-Salim al-Sabah Robert Merrill and The New Christy Minstrels

Richard Nixon

Richard Nixon, Pat Nixon, and Leonid Brezhnev at a state dinner (1973)
Date Visiting Country Guest(s) of Honor Social Secretary
March 24, 1969  Canada Pierre Trudeau Lucy A. Winchester
April 8, 1969  Jordan King Hussein
May 6, 1969  Australia John Gorton
May 19, 1969  Sierra Leone Siaka Stevens
May 27, 1969  Netherlands Petrus de Jong
June 12, 1969  Colombia Carlos Lleras Restrepo
July 8, 1969  Ethiopia Emperor Haile Selassie
August 8, 1969  West Germany Kurt-Georg Kiesinger
September 16, 1969  New Zealand Keith Holyoake
September 25, 1969  Israel Golda Meir
October 7, 1969  Laos Souvanna Phouma
October 21, 1969  Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
November 20, 1969  Japan Eisaku Satō
January 27, 1970  United Kingdom Harold Wilson
February 24, 1970[6]  France Georges Pompidou
April 10, 1970  West Germany Willy Brandt
April 14, 1970  Denmark Hilmar Baunsgaard
May 27, 1970  Indonesia Soeharto
June 2, 1970  Venezuela Rafael Caldera Rodriguez
July 23, 1970  Finland Urho Kekkonen
August 4, 1970  DR Congo Joseph-Désiré Mobutu
December 17, 1970  United Kingdom Edward Heath
February 18, 1971  Italy Emilio Colombo
May 27, 1971  Saudi Arabia Faisal of Saudi Arabia
October 28, 1971  Yugoslavia Josip Broz Tito
November 4, 1971  India Indira Gandhi
December 7, 1971  Brazil Emilio Medici
March 21, 1972  Turkey Nihat Erim
June 15, 1972  Mexico Luis Echeverria
February 1, 1973  United Kingdom Edward Heath
April 10, 1973  Singapore Lee Kuan Yew
April 18, 1973  Italy Giulio Andreotti
May 2, 1973  West Germany Willy Brandt
May 15, 1973  Ethiopia Haile Selassie
June 18, 1973  Soviet Union Leonid Brezhnev
July 26, 1973  Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
August 1, 1973  Japan Kakuei Tanaka
September 20, 1973  Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
September 29, 1973  New Zealand Norman Kirk
October 11, 1973  Ivory Coast Felix Houphouet-Boigny
December 4, 1973  Romania Nicolae Ceausescu
March 12, 1974 (hosted by Vice President Gerald Ford in Nixon's place)[65][83]  Jordan Hussein of Jordan

Gerald Ford

Queen Sofia, First Lady Betty Ford, King Juan Carlos I, and President Gerald Ford greeting guests at a state dinner (1976)
Date Visiting Country Guest(s) of Honor Social Secretary
August 16, 1974  Jordan King Hussein of Jordan Maria Downs
September 12, 1974  Israel Yitzhak Rabin
September 25, 1974  Italy Giovanni Leone
October 8, 1974  Poland Edward Gierek
November 12, 1974  Austria Bruno Kreisky
December 4, 1974  Canada Pierre Trudeau
December 5, 1974  West Germany Helmut Schmidt
February 5, 1975  Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
January 30, 1975  United Kingdom Harold Wilson
April 19, 1975  Zambia Kenneth Kaunda
April 29, 1975  Jordan King Hussein of Jordan
May 1, 1975  Tunisia Hedi Nouira
May 8, 1975  Singapore Lee Kuan Yew
May 14, 1975  Netherlands Joop den Uyl
May 15, 1975  Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
June 11, 1975  Israel Yitzhak Rabin
June 16, 1975  West Germany Walter Scheel
August 5, 1975  Japan Takeo Miki
September 25, 1975  Colombia Alfonso Lopez Michelsen
October 2, 1975  Japan Emperor Hirohito
Empress Nagako
October 27, 1975  Egypt Anwar Sadat
November 12, 1975  Luxembourg Gaston Thorn
January 27, 1976  Israel Yitzhak Rabin
March 17, 1976  Ireland Liam Cosgrave
March 30, 1976  Jordan King Hussein of Jordan
May 17, 1976[6]  France Valery Giscard d'Estaing
June 2, 1976  Spain King Juan Carlos
Queen Sofía
July 7, 1976  United Kingdom Queen Elizabeth II
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
July 15, 1976  West Germany Helmut Schmidt
July 27, 1976  Australia Malcolm Fraser
August 3, 1976  Finland Urho Kekkonen
September 21, 1976  Liberia William Tolbert
December 6, 1976  Italy Giulio Andreotti

Jimmy Carter

Jimmy Carter toasts Carlos Andres Perez, the President of Venezuela, during a state dinner (1977)
Date Visiting Country Guest(s) of Honor Social Secretary Entertainment
February 14, 1977[84]  Mexico José López Portillo Gretchen Poston Rudolf Serkin
February 21, 1977[84]  Canada Pierre Trudeau The Young Columbians
March 7, 1977[84]  Israel Yitzhak Rabin The Alexandria Quartet
March 10, 1977[84]  United Kingdom James Callaghan Robert White
March 21, 1977[84]  Japan Takeo Fukuda The Tokyo String Quartet
April 4, 1977[84]  Egypt Anwar Al-Sadat
April 25, 1977[84]  Jordan King Hussein of Jordan Wind Quartet from the Richmond Symphony
May 24, 1977[84]  Saudi Arabia Fahd of Saudi Arabia
June 22, 1977[84]  Australia Malcolm Fraser
June 28, 1977[84]  Venezuela Carlos Andrés Pérez Cynthia Gregory and Ted Kivitt
July 13, 1977[84]  West Germany Helmut Schmidt Members of the Metropolitan Opera Company
July 19, 1977[84]  Israel Menachem Begin
July 26, 1977[84]  Italy Giulio Andreotti Shirley Verrett
August 4, 1977[84]  Tanzania Mwalimu Julius K. Neyere The Richard Quintet
September 7, 1977[84]
(Dinner held in connection with the signing of the Torrijos–Carter Treaties regarding the transfer of the Panama Canal)[85] 		 Paraguay

 Dominican Republic

 Bolivia

 Chile

 Costa Rica

 Venezuela

 Guatemala

 Colombia

 Honduras

 Peru

 Ecuador

 Argentina

 Uruguay

 El Salvador

 Canada

 Panama

 Jamaica

 Bahamas

 Grenada

 Brazil

 Guyana

 Haiti

 Nicaragua

 Mexico

 Trinidad and Tobago

 Suriname

 Barbados

Alfredo Stroessner

Joaquin Balaguer

Hugo Banzer Suarez

Augusto Pinochet Ugarte

Daniel Oduber Quiros

Carlos Andres Perez

Kjell Eugenio Laugerud Garcia

Alfonso Lopez Michelsen

Juan Alberto Melgar Castro

Francisco Morales Bermudez

Alfredo Poveda Burbano

Jorge Rafael Videla

Aparicio Mendez

Carlos Humberto Romero

Pierre Elliott Trudeau

Omar Torrijos Herrera

Michael Norman Manley

Lynden O. Pindling

Eric Gairy

Adalberto Pereira dos Santos

Ptolemy A. Reid

Edner Brutus

Cornelio Hueck

Santiago Garcia

Victor C. McIntyre

Roel F. Karamat

Oliver H. Jackman

Martina Arroyo, Isaac Stern and Andre Previn
September 9, 1977[84]  France Raymond Barre Elizabeth Matesky
October 11, 1977[84]  Nigeria Olusegun Obasanjo Susan Starr
October 19, 1977[84]  Belgium Leo Tindemans
November 15, 1977[84]  Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
March 7, 1978[84]  Yugoslavia Josip Broz Tito
April 12, 1978[84]  Romania Nicolae Ceaușescu George Shearing, Clamma Dale
May 3, 1978[84]  Japan Takeo Fukuda
May 17, 1978[84]  Zambia Kenneth Kaunda Mel Downs
June 13, 1978[84]  India Morarji Desai James Weaver
November 14, 1978[84]  Morocco Hassan II of Morocco Alvin Ailey
January 29, 1979[84]  China Deng Xiaoping
February 6, 1979[84]  Thailand Kriangsak Chomanan The American Dance Machine
March 26, 1979[84]  Egypt
 Israel 		Anwar Al-Sadat
Menachem Begin 		Omar Khorshid and Gamal Abdel-Rahim
Itzhak Perlman and Pinchas Zukerman
Leontyne Price
May 2, 1979[84]  Japan Masayoshi Ōhira Bobby Short
September 28, 1979[84]  Mexico José López Portillo Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
November 8, 1979[84]  Ireland Jack Lynch Washington Opera
December 17, 1979[84]  United Kingdom Margaret Thatcher
January 24, 1980[84]  Italy Francesco Cossiga Tom T. Hall
February 20, 1980[84]  Kenya Daniel arap Moi Delphin and Romain
March 5, 1980[84]  West Germany Helmut Schmidt The New York Jazz Repertory Company
April 8, 1980[84]  Egypt Anwar Al-Sadat The Statler Brothers
April 15, 1980[84]  Israel Menachem Begin The Guarneri String Quartet
April 22, 1980[84]  Belgium Baudouin of Belgium New York Harp Ensemble
June 17, 1980[84]  Jordan King Hussein of Jordan Andre Watts
October 7, 1980[84]  Nigeria Shehu Shagari Cicely Tyson

Ronald Reagan

The Reagans with President João Figueiredo of Brazil and his wife Dulce (1982)
President Reagan with Brazilian President José Sarney and Pelé at a state dinner (1986)
Ronald Reagan, Mikhail Gorbachev, and their wives arrive at a state dinner (1987)
Date Visiting Country Guest(s) of Honor Social Secretary Entertainment
February 26, 1981[86]  United Kingdom Margaret Thatcher Mabel Brandon Dance Theatre of Harlem[87]
May 7, 1981  Japan Zenkō Suzuki Shirley Verrett[87]
May 21, 1981  West Germany Helmut Schmidt Juilliard String Quartet[87]
June 30, 1981  Australia Malcolm Fraser Vincent Dowling[87]
August 5, 1981  Egypt Anwar Sadat Gold and Fizdale[87]
September 9, 1981  Israel Menachem Begin Andre-Michel Schub[87]
October 13, 1981  Spain King Juan Carlos I Ella Fitzgerald[87]
November 2, 1981  Jordan King Hussein I Benny Goodman[87] and Buddy Rich
November 17, 1981  Venezuela Luis Herrera Campins Robert Goulet[87]
February 3, 1982  Egypt Hosni Mubarak Itzhak Perlman[87] and Samuel Sanders[87]
March 25, 1982  Italy Sandro Pertini Perry Como[87] and Frank Sinatra[87]
April 19, 1982  Netherlands Queen Beatrix George Shearing[87] and Brian Torff[87]
May 12, 1982  Brazil João Figueiredo Sérgio Mendes[87]
July 29, 1982  India Indira Gandhi New York Philharmonic[87]
September 16, 1982  Philippines Ferdinand Marcos The 5th Dimension[87]
October 12, 1982  Indonesia Suharto Frederica von Stade[87] and Martin Katz[87]
December 7, 1982  Pakistan Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq Pinchas Zukerman,[87] Eugenia Zukerman,[87] and Marc Neikrug[87]
April 12, 1983  Oman Sultan Qaboos bin Said al Said Anna Moffo[87] and Robert Merrill[87]
June 7, 1983  Ivory Coast Félix Houphouët-Boigny Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center[87]
July 19, 1983  Bahrain Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa Byron Janis[87]
September 15, 1983  Portugal António Ramalho Eanes Sergio Franchi[87]
October 4, 1983  West Germany Karl Carstens Sherrill Milnes[87]
December 7, 1983  Nepal King Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Ferrante & Teicher[87]
January 10, 1984  China Zhao Ziyang Isaac Stern[87] and Andrew Wolf[87]
February 28, 1984  Austria Rudolf Kirchschläger Peter Nero[87] and Mel Torme[87]
March 22, 1984[6]  France François Mitterrand Julio Iglesias[87]
April 10, 1984  Dominican Republic Salvador Jorge Blanco Wayne Newton[87]
May 15, 1984  Mexico Miguel de la Madrid Gloria Loring[87]
June 18, 1984  Sri Lanka J.R. Jayewardene Frank Sinatra[87]
November 13, 1984  Luxembourg Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg Twyla Tharp Dance Company[87]
December 4, 1984  Venezuela Jaime Lusinchi Andy Williams[87]
February 11, 1985  Saudi Arabia Fahd of Saudi Arabia Montserrat Caballé[87]
March 19, 1985  Argentina Raúl Alfonsín Pete Fountain[87]
April 17, 1985  Algeria Chadli Bendjedid Fernando Bujones[87] and Marianna Tcherkassky[87]
June 12, 1985  India Rajiv Gandhi Mstislav Rostropovich[87] and Lambert Orkis[87]
July 23, 1985  China Li Xiannian
September 10, 1985  Denmark Poul Schlüter Vic Damone[87]
October 8, 1985[88]  Singapore Lee Kuan Yew Karen Akers[87] and Mark Hummel[87]
January 14, 1986  Ecuador León Febres Cordero Jessye Norman[87] and Phillip Moll[87]
March 18, 1986  Canada Brian Mulroney Rosalyn Tureck[87]
June 17, 1986  Uruguay Julio María Sanguinetti Dave Brubeck Quartet[87]
September 10, 1986[89]  Brazil José Sarney Linda Faulkner Paul Anka[87]
October 21, 1986  West Germany Helmut Kohl Joel Grey[87]
March 31, 1987[6]  France Jacques Chirac Dionne Warwick[87]
April 30, 1987  Japan Yasuhiro Nakasone Henry Mancini[87]
September 9, 1987  Sweden Ingvar Carlsson Marilyn Horne[87] and Martin Katz[87]
October 14, 1987  El Salvador José Napoleón Duarte Lionel Hampton[87]
November 10, 1987  Israel Chaim Herzog Roberta Peters[87] and Yakov Kreizberg[87]
December 8, 1987[86]  Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev Van Cliburn[87]
January 28, 1988  Egypt Hosni Mubarak Patti Austin[87] and David Benoit[87]
April 27, 1988  Canada Brian Mulroney Bruce Hubbard[87] and Larry Woodard[87]
June 27, 1988  Turkey Kenan Evren Christopher Parkening[87]
October 6, 1988  Mali Moussa Traoré Pete Fountain[87]
November 16, 1988  United Kingdom Margaret Thatcher Michael Feinstein[87][90]

George H.W. Bush

President George H. W. Bush and First Lady Barbra Bush host President Abdou Diouf and First Lady Elizabeth Diouf of Senegal
Date Visiting Country Guest(s) of Honor Social Secretary Entertainment
April 4, 1989  Egypt Hosni Mubarak Laurie Firestone
April 6, 1989  Israel Yitzak Shamir Michael Carney Orchestra
April 19, 1989  Jordan King Hussein I Mstislav Rostropovich and Lambert Orkis
June 6, 1989  Pakistan Benazir Bhutto Itzhak Perlman
June 27, 1989  Australia Robert Hawke Leontyne Price
October 3, 1989  Mexico Carlos Salinas de Gortari Judy Kaye
October 11, 1989  Italy Francesco Cossiga Isaac Stern
January 24, 1990  Yemen Ali Abdullah Saleh Alessandra Marc
March 6, 1990  Italy Giulio Andreotti Roberta Peters
March 21, 1990  Poland Tadeusz Mazowiecki Garrick Ohlsson
May 5, 1990  Tunisia Zine El Abidine Ben Ali Harry Connick Jr.
May 30, 1990  Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev Frederica von Stade
October 18, 1990  Hungary József Antall Van Cliburn
February 20, 1991[91]  Denmark Queen Margrethe II Frederica von Stade
March 20, 1991  Poland Lech Walesa Karen Akers
April 17, 1991[91]  Nicaragua Violeta Chamorro Johnny Mathis
May 14, 1991[91]  United Kingdom Queen Elizabeth II
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
June 18, 1991[91]  Brazil Fernando Collor de Mello Gloria Estefan
July 2, 1991[91]  South Korea Roh Tae Woo Broadway production The Phantom of the Opera
September 10, 1991[91]  Senegal Abdou Diouf Boys Choir of Harlem
September 26, 1991  Morocco King Hassan II Roberta Peters
February 26, 1992  Bolivia
 Colombia
 Ecuador
 Mexico
 Peru
 Venezuela 		Jaime Paz Zamora
César Gaviria
Rodrigo Borja Cevallos
Carlos Salinas de Gortari
Alberto Fujimori
Armando Durán
April 29, 1992  Germany Richard von Weizsäcker
May 13, 1992  Chile Patricio Aylwin Yo-Yo Ma
June 16, 1992  Russia Boris Yeltsin Carol Vaness

Bill Clinton

President Bill Clinton and Nelson Mandela deliver remarks before their state dinner.
Date Visiting Country Guest(s) of Honor Social Secretary Entertainment
November 23, 1993  South Korea Kim Young-sam Ann Stock Jessye Norman
June 13, 1994  Japan Emperor Akihito
Empress Michiko 		Mstislav Rostropovich
July 25, 1994  Israel
 Jordan 		Yitzhak Rabin
King Hussein I 		United States Marine Band
September 27, 1994  Russia Boris Yeltsin Kathleen Battle
October 4, 1994  South Africa Nelson Mandela Whitney Houston
February 9, 1995  Germany Helmut Kohl Tony Bennett
March 15, 1995  Morocco King Hassan II Modern Jazz Quartet
April 20, 1995  Brazil Fernando Cardoso Ramsey Lewis and Billy Taylor
July 27, 1995  South Korea Kim Young-sam Liza Minnelli
October 10, 1995  Mexico Ernesto Zedillo Limon Dance Company
February 1, 1996[6]  France Jacques Chirac Thomas Hampson
June 13, 1996  Ireland Mary Robinson Mary Chapin Carpenter and Mary Black
February 26, 1997  Chile Eduardo Frei Yo-Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer, and Mark O'Connor
April 8, 1997  Canada Jean Chrétien Warren Jones and Denyce Graves
October 29, 1997  China Jiang Zemin Capricia Marshall National Symphony Orchestra
February 5, 1998  United Kingdom Tony Blair Elton John and Stevie Wonder
May 6, 1998  Italy Romano Prodi David Miller and Marcus Haddock
June 9, 1998  South Korea Kim Dae-jung Hong Hei-kyung
September 16, 1998  Czech Republic Václav Havel Lou Reed
October 28, 1998  Colombia Andrés Pastrana Arango Ainhoa Arteta
January 11, 1999  Argentina Carlos Menem Robert Duvall and Luciana Pedraza
February 24, 1999  Ghana Jerry Rawlings Najee
April 8, 1999  China Zhu Rongji Yo-Yo Ma
May 3, 1999  Japan Keizo Obuchi Van Cliburn
June 8, 1999  Hungary Árpád Göncz Judy Collins and Cory Pesaturo
February 23, 2000  Spain King Juan Carlos I Placido Domingo
May 22, 2000  South Africa Thabo Mbeki Awadagin Pratt
June 20, 2000  Morocco King Mohammed VI Earth, Wind, & Fire
September 17, 2000  India Atal Bihari Vajpayee Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

George W. Bush

President George W. Bush toasts Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II during the state dinner in her honor at the White House. (2007)
Date Visiting Country Guest(s) of Honor Social Secretary Entertainment
September 5, 2001  Mexico Vicente Fox Catherine Fenton Dawn Upshaw
July 17, 2002[92]  Poland Aleksander Kwaśniewski Vanessa Rubin
May 19, 2003  Philippines Gloria Macapagal Arroyo Susan Graham
October 6, 2003[93]  Kenya Mwai Kibaki Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater[94]
July 18, 2005[95]  India Manmohan Singh Preservation Hall Jazz Band
November 2, 2005[96]  United Kingdom Charles, Prince of Wales
Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall 		Yo-Yo Ma
May 16, 2006[97]  Australia John Howard Lea Berman Kenny Chesney
June 29, 2006  Japan Junichiro Koizumi The Brian Setzer Orchestra
May 7, 2007[98]  United Kingdom Queen Elizabeth II
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh 		Amy Zantzinger Itzhak Perlman[99]
November 6, 2007[6][100]  France Nicolas Sarkozy Reenactment of the Visit of the Marquis de Lafayette to the United States
September 15, 2008[101]  Ghana John Kufuor Broadway production The Lion King
September 20, 2008[102]  Colombia Alvaro Uribe Velez
October 13, 2008[103]  Italy Silvio Berlusconi Broadway production Jersey Boys

Barack Obama

Xi Jinping and Barack Obama make a mutual toast at a state dinner (2015)
Date Visiting Country Guest(s) of Honor Social Secretary Entertainment
November 24, 2009  India Manmohan Singh Desiree Rogers National Symphony Orchestra, Jennifer Hudson, Kurt Elling, and A.R. Rahman
May 19, 2010  Mexico Felipe Calderon Julianna Smoot Beyoncé[104] and Rodrigo y Gabriela[104]
January 19, 2011[105]  China Hu Jintao Chris Botti,[105] Dee Dee Bridgewater,[105] Herbie Hancock,[105] Lang Lang,[105] Dianne Reeves,[105] Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz[105]
June 7, 2011[106]  Germany Angela Merkel Jeremy Bernard James Taylor[106]
October 13, 2011[107]  South Korea Lee Myung-bak Ahn Trio and Janelle Monae
March 14, 2012[108]  United Kingdom David Cameron Mumford and Sons,[108] John Legend[108]
February 11, 2014[6][109]  France François Hollande Mary J. Blige[109]
April 28, 2015[110]  Japan Shinzō Abe Cast of the film Jersey Boys[110]
September 25, 2015[111]  China Xi Jinping Deesha Dyer Ne-Yo
March 10, 2016[112]  Canada Justin Trudeau Sara Bareilles
May 13, 2016[113]  Denmark
 Finland
 Iceland
 Norway
 Sweden 		Lars Løkke Rasmussen
Sauli Niinistö
Sigurður Ingi Jóhannsson
Erna Solberg
Stefan Löfven 		Demi Lovato
August 2, 2016  Singapore Lee Hsien Loong Chrisette Michele
October 18, 2016[114]  Italy Matteo Renzi Gwen Stefani

Donald Trump

President Donald Trump listens to remarks by Australia Prime Minister Scott Morrison during the State Dinner in the Rose Garden of the White House. (2019)
Date Visiting Country Guest(s) of Honor Social Secretary Entertainment
April 24, 2018[115]  France Emmanuel Macron Rickie Niceta Washington National Opera
September 20, 2019  Australia Scott Morrison U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines Bands[116]

Joe Biden

Before the state dinner: French First Lady Brigitte Macron and President Emmanuel Macron, President Joe Biden and US First Lady Jill Biden (2022)
Date Visiting Country Guest(s) of Honor Social Secretary Entertainment
December 1, 2022[117]  France Emmanuel Macron Carlos Elizondo Jon Batiste[118]
April 26, 2023[119]  South Korea Yoon Suk-yeol Norm Lewis, Jessica Vosk, Lea Salonga, Yoon Suk-yeol [a][124]
June 22, 2023  India Narendra Modi Joshua Bell[125]
October 25, 2023  Australia Anthony Albanese U.S. Marine Band[126]

See also

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  1. ^ During the dinner, Biden remarked that he knew one of South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol's favorite songs was Don McLean's “American Pie”, Yoon then sang the ballad in front of rapturous applause. Yoon was then presented a guitar signed by the singer Don McLean.[120][121][122][123]
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