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∙ 14y agoTechnically Washington did however it did not become a federal holiday with a set date until Lincoln.
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∙ 13y agoNo president made Thanksgiving a national holiday in 1789, Abraham Lincoln did on October 3, 1863.
When Congress voted to change the name from Armistice Day to Veterans Day in 1954, President Eisenhower proclaimed November 11 as Veterans Day. It was President Woodrow Wilson in 1919 that first proclaimed this day as Armistice Day.
1632 was the first day.
The proclamation was made by colonial Governor William Bradford, who was elected the leader of the Plymouth colony after John Carver died in the winter of 1620-1621, along with nearly half of the colonists.
President Wilson proclaimed November 11th as Amristice Day in 1919. Congress made it a Federal Holiday in 1938. It was renamed Veterans Day by President Eisenhower in 1954.
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In the middle of the US Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln, prompted by a series of editorials written by Sarah Hale, proclaimed a national Thanksgiving Day, to be celebrated on the final Thursday in November 1863. It has been celebrated anually since. However President George Washington was the first President to issue a Proclamation that declared a National Day of Thanksgiving on October 3, 1789.
Thanksgiving was declared a national holiday in America on October 3, 1863 by president Abraham Lincoln.
False. It was President Abraham Lincoln during the USA Civil War Between the States, (in 1863), who made Thanksgiving a national holiday in the USA.
When Congress voted to change the name from Armistice Day to Veterans Day in 1954, President Eisenhower proclaimed November 11 as Veterans Day. It was President Woodrow Wilson in 1919 that first proclaimed this day as Armistice Day.
Lincoln proclaimed a national day of thanksgiving in 1863. Franklin Roosevelt got Congress to make Thanksgiving a federal holiday in 1941. FDR had the day moved up a week wnenever November had 5 Thursdays.[[Which president legalized thanksgiving&action=edit|]] [Discuss:Which_president_legalized_thanksgiving ] [javascript:getUpdates(1); ]Read more: [[Which president legalized thanksgiving#ixzz16ANW45R1|http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Which_president_legalized_thanksgiving#ixzz16ANW45R1]]
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
President George Washington proclaimed Thursday, November 26, 1789 to be "a day of public thanksgiving and prayer". He proclaimed a second Thanksgiving Day on Thursday, February 19, 1795. It wasn't until 1863 that President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed the last Thursday of November of every year to be "a day of Thanksgiving". In June 1870 it legally became a paid holiday for federal employees working within the District of Columbia. In 1885 the law was expanded to apply to federal employees nationwide. In 1939 and 1940, in order to help retail businesses by making the Christmas shopping season longer, President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaimed Thanksgiving Day to be the third Thursday of November. So many people protested the change in the Thanksgiving tradition that, as a compromise, Congress passed a bill making the fourth Thursday of November Thanksgiving Day. President Roosevelt signed the bill into law on December 26, 1941, and it remains in effect to this day.
NOPE, Canadian Thanksgiving was first though.
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Abraham Lincoln [February 12, 1809-April 15, 1865], as the 16th U.S. President, declared a national Day of Thanksgiving in 1863. He made that declaration by way of a Proclamation of October 3rd. That had been the date of the original proclamation by first U.S. President George Washington [February 22, 1732-December 14, 1799] to the same effect, in 1789.
October 3, 1789 was the date on which first U.S. President George Washington [February 22, 1732-December 14, 1799] proclaimed a national day of Thanksgiving. He identified that day as November 26th. The holiday continued to be observed, but not on a national level. Its observance tended to be in New England. But the date varied widely, from sometime in October to sometime in January.