Biblical Verse Quotations in U.S. Presidential Speeches from 1932 to 2024

Jayna Huang's dataset contains computationally extracted biblical verse quotations from U.S. presidential speeches spanning 1932–2024. The 750.2 KB CSV file was last updated on 2026-04-28. Quotations were identified using a multi-stage pipeline combining lexical retrieval and supervised classification.

Use Cases

• Analyze temporal trends in biblical reference usage based on the speech metadata and time range.
• Study the correlation between specific biblical verses and political contexts based on the matched verse and speech metadata.
• Evaluate the performance of automated quotation extraction models based on the provided model confidence scores.
• Examine the rhetorical strategies of different U.S. presidents based on the identified quotations and speaker metadata.

Strengths

• Covers a significant 92-year time range from 1932 to 2024.
• Quotations are identified via a documented multi-stage computational pipeline.
• Includes model confidence scores for each extracted quotation.
• Released under the permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The dataset's computational extraction method may introduce errors not captured by confidence scores.

Provenance

Source

figshare, author Jayna Huang

Collection Method

Computational extraction via a multi-stage pipeline combining lexical retrieval and supervised classification.

Time Range

1932–2024

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-28 17:56:11; freshness should be verified.

Geography

United States