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On October 3, 1863, President Lincoln issued a proclamation designating “the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving.” Lincoln’s announcement marked the culmination of a multi-decade campaign by Sarah Josepha Hale to make Thanksgiving into a national holiday. George Washington was the first president to proclaim a day of thanksgiving, issuing his request on October 3, 1789, exactly 74 years before Lincoln's. The document below sets apart the last Thursday of November "as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise." A campaign by editor Sarah Josepha Hale to make Thanksgiving an official federal holiday succeeded in 1863 when President Lincoln made a proclamation. On October 3, 1863, expressing gratitude for a pivotal Union Army victory at Gettysburg, President Abraham Lincoln announces that the nation will celebrate an official Thanksgiving holiday on... Source: The Nicolay and Hay Lincoln Collection. Abraham Lincoln, Proclamation of Thanksgiving Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/202574 Lincoln first proclaimed Thanksgiving a national holiday in October 1863. One of the most famous US leaders, President Abraham Lincoln, gave many speeches that have gone down in history. From the Gettysburg Address to his First Inaugural Address, Lincoln had a way with words. I do therefore invite my fellow-citizens 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 praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the heavens. By the President of the United States of America. A PROCLAMATION. The year that is drawing toward its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. On Oct. 3, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued a proclamation declaring the last Thursday of November as a day of Thanksgiving. He saw the occasion as a peaceful interlude amid the Civil...
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