Sarah Josepha Hale wrote many letters in the 1860s to the government campaigning for Thanksgiving to be designated an official American holiday.
Why President Grover Cleveland declared national holiday labor day before the strike in Pullman's town?
Grover Cleveland
Grover Cleveland
President Grover Cleveland declared Labor Day a national holiday in 1894.
Today is Columbus Day, but not a national holiday.
Grover Cleveland signed a bill to make labor day a federal holiday in 1894.
The first Thanksgiving was in 1602. George Washington designated it an official American holiday in 1789, and Abraham Lincoln signed the holiday into law in 1863.
President Cleveland agreed to Labor Day because of the many protests during the 50s which resulted in a day for rest during the year. Many protesters even died to create the holiday we call Labor Day. President Cleveland almost created a holiday to commerate the protesters that died to create Labor Day, it would be called Remmenence Day.
Grover Cleveland was the President that urged it be made a Federal Holiday. Labor Day was set as the first Monday of September by the Federal Government in 1894. Prior to that it was celebrated in 30 states, the first was Oregon, which declared it a holiday in 1887.
The holiday was first proposed by Matthew McGuire in 1882. It was made a national holiday by President Grover Cleveland after workers died in the hands of the military.
President Grover Cleveland signed into law the bill that made Labor Day an official national holiday in 1894.