What does Louisiana mean? Louisiana (La Louisianne) was named by explorer RenÃ©-Robert Cavelier in the mid 1600's to honor King Louis XIV of France. President Thomas Jefferson purchased the Louisiana territory from Napoleon in 1803 (the original Louisiana territory is now divided between 13 states). Louisiana.
Reagan started it. In his 1982 State of the Union speech, Reagan did something new. Almost 200 years after George Washington gave the first annual message from the President to Congress, Reaganâs first State of the Union started a tradition by inviting Lenny Skutnik to attend.
Western Union (WU) was founded in 1851 as an American telegraph company, and it began offering money transfer services in 1871. Now, Western Union is one of the worldâs largest and most well-known money transfer companies. In 2015, it facilitated the transfer of more than $150 billion.