Twelve
United States presidents have made presidential visits to the
United Kingdom and the
Republic of 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
The Allies of World War I, Entente (alliance), Entente Powers, or Allied Powers were a coalition of countries led by French Third Republic, France, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, United Kingdom, Russian Empire, Russia, King ...
at the conclusion of
World War I prior to the
Paris Peace Conference Agreements and declarations resulting from meetings in Paris include:
Listed by name
Paris Accords
may refer to:
* Paris Accords, the agreements reached at the end of the London and Paris Conferences in 1954 concerning the post-war status of Germ ...
. The first visit by an incumbent president to the island of
Ireland was made in June 1963 by
John F. Kennedy when he visited the Republic of Ireland. To date, 39 visits have been made to the United Kingdom and 11 to Ireland.
The United States is bound together with both the island of
Ireland and the island of
Great Britain 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
Manx Americans are Americans of full or partial Manx ancestral origin or Manx people who reside in the United States of America.
Settlement in Ohio
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,
Irish Americans,
Scotch-Irish Americans,
Scottish Americans,
Welsh Americans
Welsh Americans ( cy, Americanwyr Cymreig) are an American ethnic group whose ancestry originates wholly or partly in Wales. In the 2008 U.S. Census community survey, an estimated 1.98 million Americans had Welsh ancestry, 0.6% of the total U.S ...
, and
American Britons
Americans in the United Kingdom or American Britons, includes emigrants from the United States who gain British citizenship, people from the United States who are or have become residents or citizens of the United Kingdom.
Population
The 2001 ...
respectively.
Table of visits
Gallery
See also
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United Kingdom–United States relations
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Ireland–United States relations
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Foreign policy of the United States
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Foreign relations of the United States
References
External links
Visits of Presidents of the United States to the United Kingdom website of the U.S. Embassy and Consulates in the United Kingdom
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United Kingdom–United States relations
Lists of United States presidential visits
Ireland–United States relations