US presidential inaugural address texts, and metadata (for the corpus), from 1789 to present.
data_corpus_inaugurala corpus object with the following docvars:
Year a four-digit integer year
President character; President's last name
FirstName character; President's first name (and possibly middle initial)
Party factor; name of the President's political party
https://archive.org/details/Inaugural-Address-Corpus-1789-2009 and https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/presidential-documents-archive-guidebook/inaugural-addresses.
data_corpus_inaugural is the quanteda-package corpus
object of US presidents' inaugural addresses since 1789. Document variables
contain the year of the address and the last name of the president.
# some operations on the inaugural corpus
summary(data_corpus_inaugural)
#> Corpus consisting of 59 documents, showing 59 documents:
#>
#> Text Types Tokens Sentences Year President FirstName
#> 1789-Washington 625 1537 23 1789 Washington George
#> 1793-Washington 96 147 4 1793 Washington George
#> 1797-Adams 826 2577 37 1797 Adams John
#> 1801-Jefferson 717 1923 41 1801 Jefferson Thomas
#> 1805-Jefferson 804 2380 45 1805 Jefferson Thomas
#> 1809-Madison 535 1261 21 1809 Madison James
#> 1813-Madison 541 1302 33 1813 Madison James
#> 1817-Monroe 1040 3677 121 1817 Monroe James
#> 1821-Monroe 1259 4886 131 1821 Monroe James
#> 1825-Adams 1003 3147 74 1825 Adams John Quincy
#> 1829-Jackson 517 1208 25 1829 Jackson Andrew
#> 1833-Jackson 499 1267 29 1833 Jackson Andrew
#> 1837-VanBuren 1315 4158 95 1837 Van Buren Martin
#> 1841-Harrison 1896 9125 210 1841 Harrison William Henry
#> 1845-Polk 1334 5186 153 1845 Polk James Knox
#> 1849-Taylor 496 1178 22 1849 Taylor Zachary
#> 1853-Pierce 1165 3636 104 1853 Pierce Franklin
#> 1857-Buchanan 945 3083 89 1857 Buchanan James
#> 1861-Lincoln 1075 3999 135 1861 Lincoln Abraham
#> 1865-Lincoln 360 775 26 1865 Lincoln Abraham
#> 1869-Grant 485 1229 40 1869 Grant Ulysses S.
#> 1873-Grant 552 1472 43 1873 Grant Ulysses S.
#> 1877-Hayes 831 2707 59 1877 Hayes Rutherford B.
#> 1881-Garfield 1021 3209 111 1881 Garfield James A.
#> 1885-Cleveland 676 1816 44 1885 Cleveland Grover
#> 1889-Harrison 1352 4721 157 1889 Harrison Benjamin
#> 1893-Cleveland 821 2125 58 1893 Cleveland Grover
#> 1897-McKinley 1232 4353 130 1897 McKinley William
#> 1901-McKinley 854 2437 100 1901 McKinley William
#> 1905-Roosevelt 404 1079 33 1905 Roosevelt Theodore
#> 1909-Taft 1437 5821 158 1909 Taft William Howard
#> 1913-Wilson 658 1882 68 1913 Wilson Woodrow
#> 1917-Wilson 549 1652 59 1917 Wilson Woodrow
#> 1921-Harding 1169 3719 148 1921 Harding Warren G.
#> 1925-Coolidge 1220 4440 196 1925 Coolidge Calvin
#> 1929-Hoover 1090 3860 158 1929 Hoover Herbert
#> 1933-Roosevelt 743 2057 85 1933 Roosevelt Franklin D.
#> 1937-Roosevelt 725 1989 96 1937 Roosevelt Franklin D.
#> 1941-Roosevelt 526 1519 68 1941 Roosevelt Franklin D.
#> 1945-Roosevelt 275 633 27 1945 Roosevelt Franklin D.
#> 1949-Truman 781 2504 116 1949 Truman Harry S.
#> 1953-Eisenhower 900 2743 119 1953 Eisenhower Dwight D.
#> 1957-Eisenhower 621 1907 92 1957 Eisenhower Dwight D.
#> 1961-Kennedy 566 1541 52 1961 Kennedy John F.
#> 1965-Johnson 568 1710 93 1965 Johnson Lyndon Baines
#> 1969-Nixon 743 2416 103 1969 Nixon Richard Milhous
#> 1973-Nixon 544 1995 68 1973 Nixon Richard Milhous
#> 1977-Carter 527 1370 52 1977 Carter Jimmy
#> 1981-Reagan 902 2781 129 1981 Reagan Ronald
#> 1985-Reagan 925 2909 123 1985 Reagan Ronald
#> 1989-Bush 795 2674 141 1989 Bush George
#> 1993-Clinton 642 1833 81 1993 Clinton Bill
#> 1997-Clinton 773 2436 111 1997 Clinton Bill
#> 2001-Bush 621 1806 97 2001 Bush George W.
#> 2005-Bush 772 2312 99 2005 Bush George W.
#> 2009-Obama 938 2689 110 2009 Obama Barack
#> 2013-Obama 814 2317 88 2013 Obama Barack
#> 2017-Trump 582 1660 88 2017 Trump Donald J.
#> 2021-Biden 812 2766 216 2021 Biden Joseph R.
#> Party
#> none
#> none
#> Federalist
#> Democratic-Republican
#> Democratic-Republican
#> Democratic-Republican
#> Democratic-Republican
#> Democratic-Republican
#> Democratic-Republican
#> Democratic-Republican
#> Democratic
#> Democratic
#> Democratic
#> Whig
#> Whig
#> Whig
#> Democratic
#> Democratic
#> Republican
#> Republican
#> Republican
#> Republican
#> Republican
#> Republican
#> Democratic
#> Republican
#> Democratic
#> Republican
#> Republican
#> Republican
#> Republican
#> Democratic
#> Democratic
#> Republican
#> Republican
#> Republican
#> Democratic
#> Democratic
#> Democratic
#> Democratic
#> Democratic
#> Republican
#> Republican
#> Democratic
#> Democratic
#> Republican
#> Republican
#> Democratic
#> Republican
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#> Democratic
#> Democratic
#> Republican
#> Republican
#> Democratic
#> Democratic
#> Republican
#> Democratic
#>
head(docvars(data_corpus_inaugural), 10)
#> Year President FirstName Party
#> 1 1789 Washington George none
#> 2 1793 Washington George none
#> 3 1797 Adams John Federalist
#> 4 1801 Jefferson Thomas Democratic-Republican
#> 5 1805 Jefferson Thomas Democratic-Republican
#> 6 1809 Madison James Democratic-Republican
#> 7 1813 Madison James Democratic-Republican
#> 8 1817 Monroe James Democratic-Republican
#> 9 1821 Monroe James Democratic-Republican
#> 10 1825 Adams John Quincy Democratic-Republican