United States presidential visits to the United Kingdom and Ireland - wikipedia United States presidential visits to the United Kingdom and Ireland An orthographic projection map featuring the United Kingdom and Ireland ( highlighted in dark green ) Twelve United States presidents have made presidential visits to the United Kingdom and Ireland. The first visit by an incumbent president to the United Kingdom was made in December 1918 by Woodrow Wilson, and was an offshoot of American diplomatic interactions with the Principal Allied Powers at the conclusion of World War I prior to the Paris Peace Conference. The first visit by an incumbent president to Ireland was made in June 1963 by John F. Kennedy. To date, 33 visits have been made to the United Kingdom and nine to Ireland. The United States is bound together with both Ireland and the United Kingdom by shared history, an overlap in religion and a common language and legal system, plus kinship ties that reach back hundreds of years, including kindred, ancestral lines among Cornish Americans, English Americans, Manx Americans, Irish Americans, Scotch - Irish Americans, Scottish Americans, Welsh Americans, and American Britons respectively. Table of visits President Dates Nation Locations Major events Woodrow Wilson December 26 -- 28, 1918 United Kingdom London, Carlisle, Manchester Met with Prime Minister David Lloyd George and King George V. Harry S. Truman August 2, 1945 Plymouth Informal meeting with King George VI. Dwight D. Eisenhower August 27 -- September 2, 1959 London, Balmoral, Chequers Informal visit. Met with Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and Queen Elizabeth II. September 4 -- 7, 1959 Culzean Castle Rested before returning to the United States. John F. Kennedy June 4 -- 5, 1961 London Private visit. Met with Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and Queen Elizabeth II. June 26 -- 29, 1963 Ireland Dublin, Wexford, Cork, Galway, Limerick Addressed Oireachtas. Visited ancestral home. June 29 -- 30, 1963 United Kingdom Birch Grove Informal visit with Prime Minister Harold Macmillan at his home. Richard Nixon February 24 -- 26, 1969 London Informal visit. Delivered several public addresses. August 3, 1969 RAF Mildenhall Informal meeting with Prime Minister Harold Wilson. October 3, 1970 Chequers Met informally with Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Edward Heath. October 3 -- 5, 1970 Ireland Limerick, Timahoe, Dublin State visit. Met with Prime Minister Jack Lynch. Jimmy Carter May 5 -- 11, 1977 United Kingdom London, Newcastle, Sunderland Attended the 3rd G7 summit. Also met with the Prime Ministers of Greece, Belgium, Turkey, Norway, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg, and with the President of Portugal. Addressed the NATO Ministers meeting. Ronald Reagan June 7 -- 9, 1982 London, Windsor Castle Met with Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Addressed Parliament. June 1 -- 4, 1984 Ireland Shannon, Galway, Ballyporeen, Dublin Met with President Patrick Hillery and Prime Minister Garret FitzGerald. Visited ancestral home. Addressed Parliament. June 4 -- 10, 1984 United Kingdom London Met with Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Attended the 10th G7 summit. June 2 -- 3, 1988 Met with Queen Elizabeth II, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Japanese Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita. George H.W. Bush May 31 -- June 2, 1989 Met with Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. July 5 -- 6, 1990 Attended NATO Summit Meeting. July 14 -- 18, 1991 Attended the 17th G7 summit. Also met with Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev. Bill Clinton June 4 -- 5, 1994 Cambridge, London, Portsmouth Visited U.S. Military Cemetery. Met with Prime Minister John Major. Attended state dinner with Queen Elizabeth II and heads of state and government of Canada, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Australia, New Zealand, Norway and Belgium. Attended D - Day commemorative ceremonies. June 8, 1994 Oxford Received honorary degree from Oxford University. November 28 -- December 1, 1995 London, Belfast, Derry Met with Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister John Major. Addressed Parliament. Delivered several public addresses in Northern Ireland. December 1 -- 2, 1995 Ireland Dublin Met with President Mary Robinson and Prime Minister John Bruton. May 28 -- 29, 1997 United Kingdom London Met with Prime Minister Tony Blair and attended a Cabinet meeting. May 14 -- 18, 1998 Birmingham, Weston - under - Lizard, London Attended the 24th G8 summit and the U.S. - EU Summit Meeting. September 3, 1998 Belfast, Armagh, Omagh Met with Prime Minister Tony Blair and Northern Irish political leaders. Addressed the Northern Ireland Assembly. September 3 -- 5, 1998 Ireland Dublin, Adare, Limerick, Ballybunion Met with Prime Minister Bertie Ahern. Delivered several public addresses and played golf. December 12, 2000 Dublin, Dundalk Met with Prime Minister Bertie Ahern. Delivered several public addresses. December 12 -- 14, 2000 United Kingdom Belfast, London, Coventry Met with Prime Minister Tony Blair and Northern Irish political leaders in Belfast. Met with Queen Elizabeth II ; made a speech at the University of Warwick. George W. Bush July 18 -- 20, 2001 London, Chequers, Halton, Brize Norton Met with Prime Minister Tony Blair and Queen Elizabeth II. April 7 -- 8, 2003 Belfast, Hillsborough Met with Prime Minister Tony Blair to discuss the reconstruction of Iraq. Also met with the Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern and Northern Irish political leaders. November 18 -- 21, 2003 London, Sedgefield State visit. Met with Queen Elizabeth II, gave an address at Banqueting House, and accompanied Prime Minister Blair on a tour of the latter 's constituency in Sedgefield. June 25 -- 26, 2004 Ireland Shannon, Dromoland Castle Attended the U.S. - EU summit meeting. Met with Prime Minister Bertie Ahern. July 6 -- 8, 2005 United Kingdom Gleneagles Attended the 31st G8 summit. February 28, 2006 Ireland Shannon Met with U.S. Marines who were en route to Iraq. June 15 -- 16, 2008 United Kingdom London, Belfast Met with Queen Elizabeth II at Windsor Castle. Met with Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Quartet Representative Tony Blair. In Belfast, met with the Northern Ireland First Minister Peter Robinson and the Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness. Barack Obama March 31 -- April 3, 2009 London Met with Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Gordon Brown. Attended the G - 20 summit meeting. May 23, 2011 Ireland Dublin, Moneygall Met with President Mary McAleese and Prime Minister Enda Kenny. Visited ancestral home. May 23 -- 26, 2011 United Kingdom London State visit. Met with Queen Elizabeth II. Laid a wreath at the Tomb of The Unknown Warrior in Westminster Abbey. Addressed a joint session of the British Parliament. Met with Prime Minister David Cameron and Labour Party leader Ed Miliband. June 17 -- 18, 2013 Belfast, Lough Erne Attended the 39th G8 summit. September 4 -- 5, 2014 Newport Attended the NATO Summit Meeting. April 21 -- 24, 2016 London, Windsor, Watford Met with Queen Elizabeth II at Windsor Castle. Met with Prime Minister David Cameron and Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn. Donald Trump July 12 -- 15, 2018 London, Blenheim Palace, Windsor, Chequers, Girvan Met with Prime Minister Theresa May, and also with Queen Elizabeth II at Windsor Castle. Played golf at Trump Turnberry golf resort. See also United Kingdom -- United States relations Ireland -- United States relations Foreign policy of the United States Foreign relations of the United States References Jump up ^ `` Travels of President Woodrow Wilson ''. U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian. Jump up ^ `` Travels of President Harry S. Truman ''. U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian. ^ Jump up to : `` Travels of President Dwight D. Eisenhower ''. U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian. ^ Jump up to : `` Travels of President John F. Kennedy ''. U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian. Jump up ^ `` 1963 : Warm welcome for JFK in Ireland ''. BBC News. June 27, 1963. Retrieved February 23, 2012. ^ Jump up to : `` Travels of President Richard M. Nixon ''. U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian. Jump up ^ `` Travels of President Jimmy Carter ''. U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian. ^ Jump up to : `` Travels of President Ronald Reagan ''. U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian. Jump up ^ `` Inward State Visits Since 1952 '' ( PDF ). The Royal Household ( UK ). Retrieved 14 February 2017. ^ Jump up to : `` Travels of President George H.W. Bush ''. U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian. ^ Jump up to : `` Travels of President William J. Clinton ''. U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian. ^ Jump up to : `` Travels of President George W. Bush ''. U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian. ^ Jump up to : `` Travels of President Barack Obama ''. U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian. Jump up ^ `` London Summit ''. Archived from the original on 2009 - 04 - 23. Retrieved 2009 - 04 - 23. 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Question: how many us presidents have had a state visit to the uk
Answer: Twelve