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What president first proclaimed a Thanksgiving day?

Which president first proclaimed a Thanksgiving Day?

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    All the above are correct, HOWEVER, FDR (Roosevelt #2) is the one that made it a set day on the 4th Thursday of November. The reason being to cause an extra week of "Christmas shopping" therefore getting the economy going during the Depression. He had a motive & he new spending would help us get out of the rut we were in (too bad that doesn't work as well this time around!).

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Washington. Several presidents tried to get T-day going-- Washington, Adams, etc... Lincoln was the first successful one in establishing it as an annual holiday.

Mackenzie

President Abraham Lincoln first proclaimed the date of Thanksgiving to be the final Thursday in November in 1863. The holiday had been celebrated previously since the 1600s, but each state set it's own day of observance. In 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt moved the date to the fourth Thursday (and not always final) in November.

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Lincoln was the one to make it the last thursday of november as it is now

Salted Nuts

President Washington to recommend a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by the people of the whole nation,

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