Grant President Ulysses S. Grant was president when Christmas was made a national holiday in 1870.
The U. S. Congress and President Ulysses S. Grant made Christmas a U. S. Federal Holiday in 1870.
Technically there are no national holidays in the US, only federal holidays when federal government workers take the day off. Christmas was made a federal holiday on June 26, 1870 when U. S. Grant was President.
Franklin Roosevelt was the president in 1938, so he had to be the one if it happened.
I know he got Congress to move Thanksgiving back a week to create a longer time for shopping between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Some people called the new holiday Franksgiving.
Technically there are no national holidays in the US, only federal holidays when federal government workers take the day off. Christmas was made a federal holiday on June 26, 1870 when U. S. Grant was President.
Christmas was celebrated all over the country long before it became the United States and before there any presidents.
Kwanzaa is NOT a national holiday.
None. It has never been done.
No U.S. president has ever declared Hanukkah a national holiday.
Easter was declared as a national holiday
Why President Grover Cleveland declared national holiday labor day before the strike in Pullman's town?
President Grover Cleveland declared Labor Day a national holiday in 1894.
John F. Kennedy
nope
Ronald Reagan
their confrence
Martin Luther King Jr's Birthday was declared a national holiday in 1983 and officially went into effect in 1986 under President Ronald Reagan's term.
President Ulysses S. Grant declared Christmas an official national holiday in 1870.
Thanksgiving was declared a national holiday in America on October 3, 1863 by the then president Abraham Lincoln.
Thanksgiving was declared a national holiday in America on October 3, 1863 by president Abraham Lincoln.