December 1790 State of the Union Address
The second 1790 State of the Union Address was a State of the Union address delivered by President George Washington to the 1st United States Congress on December 8, 1790.[2] This address, longer than Washington's first State of the Union Address earlier in 1790, consisted of 1,401 words.[3] The address contained the President's thoughts on recent incursions by bands of Native Americans into frontier settlements in Ohio and his plan to deploy the militia to deal with the issue.Additionally, the President urged the prompt creation of an official militia, a mint, a standards organization to determine weights and measures, a postal service, and a body to oversee road building.[4] This article related to the politics of the United States is a stub.