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Overlooked, however, was an earlier proclamation by Washington on Oct. 3, 1789, in the first year of his presidency, when he proclaimed a national day of public thanksgiving and prayer.

A number of people have declared thanksgiving over the years. Here's a look at how the tradition started. Skip to content. All Sections. Subscribe Now. 55°F. Thursday, February 27th 2025 ...

One hundred seventy years later, after the American Revolution, George Washington was elected President under the Constitution, and revived the idea of a national day of thanksgiving.

Our first president used the holiday to unite a divided nation. So can we. Washington’s Thanksgiving and Ours On Thursday, Nov. 26, 1789, George Washington woke early. Assisted by his enslaved ...

Washington was not the only U.S. president to issue proclamations around the November holiday. In 1815, President James Madison called for a national day of prayer and thanksgiving, and in 1863 ...

George Washington called for a day of thanksgiving and prayer in 1789 to give gratitude for the end of the Revolutionary War. Then, in 1863, Abraham Lincoln proclaimed Thanksgiving a national ...

By Lincoln’s day, George Washington had already provided us with a Thanksgiving proclamation that today, nearly two and a half centuries later, still stands as a Thank You that a nation can put ...

Since 1970, Indigenous people and their allies have gathered in Plymouth, Massachusetts on the fourth Thursday of November. This day, also home to the federal holiday of Thanksgiving, is known there ...

From George Washington and Abraham Lincoln to Franklin Roosevelt, ... President Abraham Lincoln set the date for a national day of Thanksgiving to be held on the last Thursday in November.