President Lincoln declared Thanksgiving a holiday in 1863.
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According to historians, President Abraham Lincoln declared Thanksgiving a national holiday in the fall of 1863 after Sarah Hale sent letters to him concerning the significance of the first thanksgiving event.
George Washington declared Thanksgiving a national holiday in 1789. However, the Continental Congress (president John Hanson) made the first actual national proclamation on March 16, 1776. The following year, a national day of prayer and thanksgiving was observed on December 16, 1777. The date of Thursday, November 26, 1789 was the date used by Washington, following the precedent of Thursday, November 28, 1782. The annual observance was established by Abraham Lincoln in 1863, and observed each year since then.
The first Presidential Thanksgiving day proclamation was on 1863.
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Because there is another question relating to Thanksgiving which leaves out significant information, I shall answer this one. Thanksgiving was declared a national holiday by Abraham Lincoln during his first term of office. Radical Republicans were Protestants. Thanksgiving was a Protestant feast day. Lincoln appeased his Republican allies by declaring the day a US Holiday.
Abraham Lincoln died in 1865 by an assassination.
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Abraham Lincoln served as president of the United States from 1861 to 1865.
President Abraham Lincoln was born 12feb1809, near Hodgenville, Kentucky
Abraham Lincoln makes roughly Zero US dollars per year because he is dead.