List of state dinners in the United States facts for kids

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. 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.

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	Hawaii	Kalākaua of Hawai'i

Herbert Hoover

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Date	Visiting Country	Guest(s) of Honor	Social Secretary
October 10, 1933	Panama	Harmodio Arias Madrid	Edith Benham Helm
June 8, 1939	United Kingdom	George VI of the United Kingdom
February 12, 1941	Luxembourg	Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg
July 7, 1942	Colombia	Alfonso López Pumarejo
December 8, 1942	Cuba	Fulgencio Batista
June 9, 1943	Paraguay	Higinio Moríñigo
October 14, 1943	Haiti	Élie Lescot
January 19, 1944	Venezuela	Isaías Medina Angarita
June 7, 1944	Poland	Stanisław Mikołajczyk
August 24, 1944	Iceland	Sveinn Björnsson
March 23, 1945	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	France	Charles de Gaulle
November 10, 1945	Canada  United Kingdom	William Lyon Mackenzie King Clement Attlee	Edith Benham Helm
April 29, 1947	Mexico	Miguel Alemán Valdés
April 4, 1949	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	Brazil	Eurico Gaspar Dutra
August 8, 1949	Philippines	Elpidio Quirino
November 16, 1949	Iran	Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
March 28, 1951	France	Vincent Auriol
June 20, 1951	Ecuador	Galo Plaza
April 2, 1952	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	Greece	Paul of Greece	Mary Jane McCaffrey
January 27, 1954	Turkey	Celâl Bayar
May 26, 1954	Ethiopia	Haile Selassie of Ethiopia
July 26, 1954	South Korea	Syngman Rhee
October 18, 1954	Liberia	William Tubman
January 26, 1955	Haiti	Paul Magloire
May 8, 1957	South Vietnam	Ngo Dinh Diem
October 17, 1957	Canada	Elizabeth II of Canada
June 4, 1958	West Germany	Theodor Heuss
June 17, 1958	Philippines	Carlos P. Garcia
January 20, 1959	Argentina	Arturo Frondizi
March 10, 1959	El Salvador	José María Lemus
March 17, 1959	Ireland	Seán T. O'Kelly
May 11, 1959	Belgium	Baudouin of Belgium
September 15, 1959	Soviet Union	Nikita Khrushchev
October 9, 1959	Mexico	Adolfo López Mateos
October 26, 1959	Guinea	Ahmed Sékou Touré
April 5, 1960	Colombia	Alberto Lleras Camargo
April 22, 1960	France	Charles de Gaulle
April 27, 1960	Nepal	Mahendra of Nepal
June 3, 1960	Canada	John Diefenbaker
June 28, 1960	Thailand	Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand
September 27, 1960	Japan	Prince Akihito
October 11, 1960	Denmark	Frederik 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	Tunisia	Habib Bourguiba	Letitia Baldrige
July 11, 1961	Pakistan	Ayub Khan		National Symphony Orchestra
September 19, 1961	Peru	Manuel Prado Ugarteche		Roberta Peters, Jerome Hines
October 4, 1961	Sudan	Ibrahim Abboud		American Shakespeare Theatre
November 7, 1961	India	Jawaharlal Nehru
February 13, 1962	Saudi Arabia	Saud of Saudi Arabia
April 11, 1962	Iran	Mohammad Reza Pahlavi		Ballets: U.S.A., Jerome Robbins
May 22, 1962	Ivory Coast	Félix Houphouët-Boigny		American Ballet Theatre
February 19, 1963	Venezuela	Rómulo Betancourt
March 27, 1963	Morocco	Hassan II of Morocco		New York City Center Light Opera Company
April 30, 1963	Luxembourg	Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg		Basil Rathbone, Consort Players
June 3, 1963	India	Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan		Washington National Opera
September 5, 1963	Afghanistan	Mohammed Zahir Shah		Military bands
October 1, 1963	Ethiopia	Haile Selassie of Ethiopia		Joffrey Ballet
October 15, 1963	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	West Germany	Ludwig Erhard	LBJ Ranch		Pianist Van Cliburn
June 1, 1964	Israel	Levi Eshkol	White House
October 5, 1964	Philippines	Diosdado Macapagal		Bess Abell	Harkness Ballet
March 29, 1965	Upper Volta	Maurice Yaméogo			Dancers from the American Institute of Indian Art
May 17, 1965	South Korea	Park Chung-hee			Walter Trampler
December 14, 1965	Pakistan	Ayub Khan
June 21, 1966	Saudi Arabia	Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud			Fireworks
September 8, 1966	Burma	Ne Win
September 14, 1966	Philippines	Ferdinand Marcos			New York City Center Light Opera Company
September 28, 1966 (luncheon rather than dinner)	Senegal	Leopold Sedar Senghor
February 14, 1967	Ethiopia	Haile Selassie			Singers Richard Tucker and Nedda Casei
April 3, 1967	Turkey	Cevdet Sunay			Opera Company of Boston
June 27, 1967	Thailand	Bhumibol Adulydej of Thailand
October 26, 1967	Mexico	Gustavo Diaz-Ordaz			Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass
November 1, 1967	Nepal	King Mahendra			Charlie Byrd
March 20, 1968	Paraguay	General Alfredo Stroessner
April 25, 1968	Norway	Olav V			Jeoffrey Ballet
May 15, 1968	Tunisia	Habib Bourguiba			Geoffrey Holder and Carmen de Lavallade
December 11, 1968	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	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)	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	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	Mexico	José López Portillo	Gretchen Poston	Rudolf Serkin
February 21, 1977	Canada	Pierre Trudeau		The Young Columbians
March 7, 1977	Israel	Yitzhak Rabin		The Alexandria Quartet
March 10, 1977	United Kingdom	James Callaghan		Robert White
March 21, 1977	Japan	Takeo Fukuda		The Tokyo String Quartet
April 4, 1977	Egypt	Anwar Al-Sadat
April 25, 1977	Jordan	King Hussein of Jordan		Wind Quartet from the Richmond Symphony
May 24, 1977	Saudi Arabia	Fahd of Saudi Arabia
June 22, 1977	Australia	Malcolm Fraser
June 28, 1977	Venezuela	Carlos Andrés Pérez		Cynthia Gregory and Ted Kivitt
July 13, 1977	West Germany	Helmut Schmidt		Members of the Metropolitan Opera Company
July 19, 1977	Israel	Menachem Begin
July 26, 1977	Italy	Giulio Andreotti		Shirley Verrett
August 4, 1977	Tanzania	Mwalimu Julius K. Neyere		The Richard Quintet
September 7, 1977 (Dinner held in connection with the signing of the Torrijos–Carter Treaties regarding the transfer of the Panama Canal)	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	France	Raymond Barre		Elizabeth Matesky
October 11, 1977	Nigeria	Olusegun Obasanjo		Susan Starr
October 19, 1977	Belgium	Leo Tindemans
November 15, 1977	Iran	Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
March 7, 1978	Yugoslavia	Josip Broz Tito
April 12, 1978	Romania	Nicolae Ceaușescu		George Shearing, Clamma Dale
May 3, 1978	Japan	Takeo Fukuda
May 17, 1978	Zambia	Kenneth Kaunda		Mel Downs
June 13, 1978	India	Morarji Desai		James Weaver
November 14, 1978	Morocco	Hassan II of Morocco		Alvin Ailey
January 29, 1979	China	Deng Xiaoping
February 6, 1979	Thailand	Kriangsak Chomanan		The American Dance Machine
March 26, 1979	Egypt Israel	Anwar Al-Sadat Menachem Begin		Omar Khorshid and Gamal Abdel-Rahim Itzhak Perlman and Pinchas Zukerman Leontyne Price
May 2, 1979	Japan	Masayoshi Ōhira		Bobby Short
September 28, 1979	Mexico	José López Portillo		Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
November 8, 1979	Ireland	Jack Lynch		Washington Opera
December 17, 1979	United Kingdom	Margaret Thatcher
January 24, 1980	Italy	Francesco Cossiga		Tom T. Hall
February 20, 1980	Kenya	Daniel arap Moi		Delphin and Romain
March 5, 1980	West Germany	Helmut Schmidt		The New York Jazz Repertory Company
April 8, 1980	Egypt	Anwar Al-Sadat		The Statler Brothers
April 15, 1980	Israel	Menachem Begin		The Guarneri String Quartet
April 22, 1980	Belgium	Baudouin of Belgium		New York Harp Ensemble
June 17, 1980	Jordan	King Hussein of Jordan		Andre Watts
October 7, 1980	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	United Kingdom	Margaret Thatcher	Mabel Brandon	Dance Theatre of Harlem
May 7, 1981	Japan	Zenkō Suzuki		Shirley Verrett
May 21, 1981	West Germany	Helmut Schmidt		Juilliard String Quartet
June 30, 1981	Australia	Malcolm Fraser		Vincent Dowling
August 5, 1981	Egypt	Anwar Sadat		Gold and Fizdale
September 9, 1981	Israel	Menachem Begin		Andre-Michel Schub
October 13, 1981	Spain	King Juan Carlos I		Ella Fitzgerald
November 2, 1981	Jordan	King Hussein I		Benny Goodman and Buddy Rich
November 17, 1981	Venezuela	Luis Herrera Campins		Robert Goulet
February 3, 1982	Egypt	Hosni Mubarak		Itzhak Perlman and Samuel Sanders
March 25, 1982	Italy	Sandro Pertini		Perry Como and Frank Sinatra
April 19, 1982	Netherlands	Queen Beatrix		George Shearing and Brian Torff
May 12, 1982	Brazil	João Figueiredo		Sérgio Mendes
July 29, 1982	India	Indira Gandhi		New York Philharmonic
September 16, 1982	Philippines	Ferdinand Marcos		The 5th Dimension
October 12, 1982	Indonesia	Suharto		Frederica von Stade and Martin Katz
December 7, 1982	Pakistan	Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq		Pinchas Zukerman, Eugenia Zukerman, and Marc Neikrug
April 12, 1983	Oman	Sultan Qaboos bin Said al Said		Anna Moffo and Robert Merrill
June 7, 1983	Ivory Coast	Félix Houphouët-Boigny		Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
July 19, 1983	Bahrain	Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa		Byron Janis
September 15, 1983	Portugal	António Ramalho Eanes		Sergio Franchi
October 4, 1983	West Germany	Karl Carstens		Sherrill Milnes
December 7, 1983	Nepal	King Birendra Bir Bikram Shah		Ferrante & Teicher
January 10, 1984	China	Zhao Ziyang		Isaac Stern and Andrew Wolf
February 28, 1984	Austria	Rudolf Kirchschläger		Peter Nero and Mel Torme
March 22, 1984	France	François Mitterrand		Julio Iglesias
April 10, 1984	Dominican Republic	Salvador Jorge Blanco		Wayne Newton
May 15, 1984	Mexico	Miguel de la Madrid		Gloria Loring
June 18, 1984	Sri Lanka	J.R. Jayewardene		Frank Sinatra
November 13, 1984	Luxembourg	Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg		Twyla Tharp Dance Company
December 4, 1984	Venezuela	Jaime Lusinchi		Andy Williams
February 11, 1985	Saudi Arabia	Fahd of Saudi Arabia		Montserrat Caballé
March 19, 1985	Argentina	Raúl Alfonsín		Pete Fountain
April 17, 1985	Algeria	Chadli Bendjedid		Fernando Bujones and Marianna Tcherkassky
June 12, 1985	India	Rajiv Gandhi		Mstislav Rostropovich and Lambert Orkis
July 23, 1985	China	Li Xiannian
September 10, 1985	Denmark	Poul Schlüter		Vic Damone
October 8, 1985	Singapore	Lee Kuan Yew		Karen Akers and Mark Hummel
January 14, 1986	Ecuador	León Febres Cordero		Jessye Norman and Phillip Moll
March 18, 1986	Canada	Brian Mulroney		Rosalyn Tureck
June 17, 1986	Uruguay	Julio María Sanguinetti		Dave Brubeck Quartet
September 10, 1986	Brazil	José Sarney	Linda Faulkner	Paul Anka
October 21, 1986	West Germany	Helmut Kohl		Joel Grey
March 31, 1987	France	Jacques Chirac		Dionne Warwick
April 30, 1987	Japan	Yasuhiro Nakasone		Henry Mancini
September 9, 1987	Sweden	Ingvar Carlsson		Marilyn Horne and Martin Katz
October 14, 1987	El Salvador	José Napoleón Duarte		Lionel Hampton
November 10, 1987	Israel	Chaim Herzog		Roberta Peters and Yakov Kreizberg
December 8, 1987	Soviet Union	Mikhail Gorbachev		Van Cliburn
January 28, 1988	Egypt	Hosni Mubarak		Patti Austin and David Benoit
April 27, 1988	Canada	Brian Mulroney		Bruce Hubbard and Larry Woodard
June 27, 1988	Turkey	Kenan Evren		Christopher Parkening
October 6, 1988	Mali	Moussa Traoré		Pete Fountain
November 16, 1988	United Kingdom	Margaret Thatcher		Michael Feinstein

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	Denmark	Queen Margrethe II		Frederica von Stade
March 20, 1991	Poland	Lech Walesa		Karen Akers
April 17, 1991	Nicaragua	Violeta Chamorro		Johnny Mathis
May 14, 1991	United Kingdom	Queen Elizabeth II Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
June 18, 1991	Brazil	Fernando Collor de Mello		Gloria Estefan
July 2, 1991	South Korea	Roh Tae Woo		Broadway production The Phantom of the Opera
September 10, 1991	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	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	Poland	Aleksander Kwaśniewski		Vanessa Rubin
May 19, 2003	Philippines	Gloria Macapagal Arroyo		Susan Graham
October 6, 2003	Kenya	Mwai Kibaki		Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
July 18, 2005	India	Manmohan Singh		Preservation Hall Jazz Band
November 2, 2005	United Kingdom	Charles, Prince of Wales Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall		Yo-Yo Ma
May 16, 2006	Australia	John Howard	Lea Berman	Kenny Chesney
June 29, 2006	Japan	Junichiro Koizumi		The Brian Setzer Orchestra
May 7, 2007	United Kingdom	Queen Elizabeth II Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh	Amy Zantzinger	Itzhak Perlman
November 6, 2007	France	Nicolas Sarkozy		Reenactment of the Visit of the Marquis de Lafayette to the United States
September 15, 2008	Ghana	John Kufuor		Broadway production The Lion King
September 20, 2008	Colombia	Alvaro Uribe Velez
October 13, 2008	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 and Rodrigo y Gabriela
January 19, 2011	China	Hu Jintao		Chris Botti, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Herbie Hancock, Lang Lang, Dianne Reeves, Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz
June 7, 2011	Germany	Angela Merkel	Jeremy Bernard	James Taylor
October 13, 2011	South Korea	Lee Myung-bak		Ahn Trio and Janelle Monae
March 14, 2012	United Kingdom	David Cameron		Mumford and Sons, John Legend
February 11, 2014	France	François Hollande		Mary J. Blige
April 28, 2015	Japan	Shinzō Abe		Cast of the film Jersey Boys
September 25, 2015	China	Xi Jinping	Deesha Dyer	Ne-Yo
March 10, 2016	Canada	Justin Trudeau		Sara Bareilles
May 13, 2016	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	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	France	Emmanuel Macron	Rickie Niceta	Washington National Opera
September 20, 2019	Australia	Scott Morrison		U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines Bands

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	France	Emmanuel Macron	Carlos Elizondo	Jon Batiste
April 26, 2023	South Korea	Yoon Suk-yeol		Norm Lewis, Jessica Vosk, Lea Salonga, Yoon Suk-yeol
June 22, 2023	India	Narendra Modi		Joshua Bell
October 25, 2023	Australia	Anthony Albanese		U.S. Marine Band
April 10, 2024	Japan	Fumio Kishida		Paul Simon

See also

• List of dining events