History of thanksgiving abe lincoln
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Sarah Josepha Hale, a 74-year-old magazine editor, wrote a letter to Lincoln on September 28, 1863, urging him to have the "day of our annual Thanksgiving made a National and fixed Union Festival." She explained, "You may have observed that, for some years past, there has been an increasing interest felt in our land to have the Thanksgiving held on the same day, in all the States; it now needs National recognition and authoritive fixation, only, to become permanently, an American custom and institution."
Prior to this, each state scheduled its own Thanksgiving holiday at different times, mainly in New England and other Northern states. President Lincoln responded to Mrs. Hale's request immediately,
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Thanksgiving Proclamation, 1863
In 1621, settlers in Massachusetts celebrated what has come to be regarded as the first thanksgiving in the New World. On October 3, 1789, George Washington issued a proclamation creating the first Thanksgiving Day designated by the national government of the United States of America, to be celebrated on Thursday, November 26, 1789. John Adams and James Madison similarly declared Thanksgiving a holiday. However, it wasn’t until October 3, 1863, at the height of the Civil War, that President Abraham Lincoln issued a Thanksgiving Day proclamation encouraging Americans “in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea, and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next as a Day of Thanksgiving and Prayer to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the heavens.” Thanksgiving has been celebrated in the United States ever since.
The copy of Lincoln’s Proclamation featured her
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Thanksgiving: Abraham Lincoln
The Pilgrims held the first Thanksgiving Day at Plymouth in 1621—but not until 1863 did the holiday become an annual event.
One woman, Sarah Josepha Hale, editor of Godey’s Lady’s Book, had campaigned long and hard among her readers for a Thanksgiving holiday. Because of her influence, President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed: “I do therefore invite my fellow citizens … to set apart and observe the gods Thursday of November as a day of Thanksgiving and beröm to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens.”
This fryst vatten Howard Butt Jr. of Laity stuga. Sarah Hale couldn’t vote or run for office, so she used the platform available to guide the nation to gratitude. I give thanks for the persistence of Sara Josepha Hale. People like her and people like you continue to bless the nation through the high calling of our daily work.
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