Nebraska Governors Speeches to the Legislature

Nebraska Governors deliver speeches to the Nebraska Legislature on various occasions. The State of the State (also called Budget) Address is given annually in January. The speeches are part of the legislative record and published full-text in the Legislative Journal. The links below are to scanned pages from the Journal.

1879 Inaugural Albinus Nance
1883 Inaugural James W. Dawes
1887 Inaugural John M. Thayer
1895 Inaugural Silas A. Holcomb
1901 Inaugural Charles H. Dietrich
1903 Inaugural John H. Mickey
1907 Inaugural George Lawson Sheldon
1919 Inaugural S.R. McKelvie
1921 Inaugural S.R. McKelvie
1923 Budget Samuel R. McKelvie
1923a Budget Charles W. Bryan
1925 Budget Charles W. Bryan
1925 Inaugural Adam McMullen
1926 Inaugural Arthur J. Weaver
1927 Budget Adam McMullen
1929 Budget Arthur J. Weaver
1931 Budget Arthur J. Weaver
1931 Inaugural Charles W. Bryan
1933 Budget Charles W. Bryan
1933 Inaugural Charles W. Bryan
1935 Inaugural R.L. Cochran
1935 Budget R.L. Cochran
1937 Budget R.L. Cochran
1939 Budget R.L. Cochran
1941 Budget R.L. Cochran
1941 Inaugural Dwight Griswold
1941a Budget Dwight Griswold
1943 Inaugural Dwight Griswold
1943 Budget Dwight Griswold
1945 Inaugural Dwight Griswold
1945 Budget Dwight Griswold
1947 Budget Dwight Griswold
1947 Inaugural Val Peterson
1947a Budget Val Peterson
1949 Budget Val Peterson
1949 Inaugural Val Peterson
1951 Budget Val Peterson
1951 Inaugural Val Peterson
1953 Budget Val Peterson
1953 Inaugural Robert B. Crosby
1955 Budget Robert B. Crosby
1955 Inaugural Victor E. Anderson
1955a Budget Victor E. Anderson
1957 Budget Victor E. Anderson
1959 Budget Victor E. Anderson
1959a Ralph G. Brooks
1961 Budget Dwight W. Burney
1961a Budget Frank B. Morrison
1963 Budget Frank B. Morrison
1965 Budget Frank B. Morrison
1967 Budget Norbert T. Tiemann
1969 Budget Norbert T. Tiemann
1971 Budget James Exon
1972 Budget James Exon
1973 Budget James Exon
1973 State of the State James Exon
1974 Budget James Exon
1975 Budget James Exon
1976 Budget James Exon
1977 State of the State/Budget James Exon
1978 State of the State James Exon
1979 Budget Charles Thone
1980 State of the State/Budget Charles Thone
1981 State of the State/Budget Charles Thone
1982 State of the State/Budget Charles Thone
1983 State of State/Budget Robert Kerrey
1984 State of State/Budget Robert Kerrey
1985 State of the State/Budget Robert Kerrey
1986 State of the State/Budget Robert Kerrey
1987 State of the State/Budget Kay Orr
1988 State of the State/Budget Kay Orr
1989 State of the State/Budget Kay Orr
1990 State of the State Kay Orr
1991 Budget Ben Nelson
1992 State of the State Ben Nelson
1993 State of the State/Budget Ben Nelson
1994 State of the State/Budget Ben Nelson
1995 State of the State/Budget Ben Nelson
1996 State of the State/Budget Ben Nelson
1997 State of the State Ben Nelson
1998 State of the State/Budget Ben Nelson
1999 State of the State Mike Johanns
2000 State of the State Mike Johanns
2001 State of the State/Budget Mike Johanns
2002 State of the State Mike Johanns
2003 State of the State Mike Johanns
2003 Inaugural Mike Johanns
2004 State of the State Mike Johanns
2005 Inaugural Dave Heineman
2005 State of the State Dave Heineman
2006 State of the State Dave Heineman
2007 State of the State Dave Heineman
2007 Inaugural Dave Heineman
2008 State of the State Dave Heineman
2009 State of the State Dave Heineman
2010 State of the State Dave Heineman
2011 State of the State Dave Heineman
2012 State of the State Dave Heineman
2013 State of the State Dave Heineman
2014 State of the State Dave Heineman
2015 State of the State Pete Ricketts
2016 State of the State Pete Ricketts
2017 State of the State Pete Ricketts
2018 State of the State Pete Ricketts
2019 State of the State Pete Rickets
2020 State of the State Pete Ricketts
Legislative Journal Journals from the most recent Legislature are linked by date. Archived issues are linked from the bottom of the web page. They are large PDF documents which may take some time to load. Governor's speeches can be located by searching on the word Governor.